Image pickup apparatus for acquiring a plurality of viewpoint images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8934051-B2
Application number	US-201113169269-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2011
Priority date	Jul 1, 2010
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup lens; a shutter capable of changing over a plurality of light paths from the image pickup lens individually between a light transmission state and a light blocking state; an image pickup element including a plurality of light receiving pixels for which exposure and signal reading out are carried out line-sequentially and adapted to acquire picked up image data based on transmission light beams of the light paths; and a control section adapted to control changeover between the light transmission state and the light blocking state of the light paths by the shutter.

First claim

The application is claimed as follows:

1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
an image pickup lens;
a shutter capable of changing over a plurality of light paths from said image pickup lens individually between a light transmission state and a light blocking state;
an image pickup element including a plurality of light receiving pixels for which exposure and signal reading out are carried out line-sequentially and adapted to acquire picked up image data based on transmissio…

Assignees

• Tajiri Shinichiro
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Tajiri Shinichiro

Classifications

• H04N13/211 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/531

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N13/296

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/3532

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N13/0296

  Electricity · mapped topic