Image pickup device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9470875-B2
Application number	US-201514820862-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2015
Priority date	Feb 21, 2013
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

An image pickup device includes a photographing optical system having a central optical system disposed at a central region and a circular optical system disposed at an outer portion of the central optical system which are arranged along the same optical axis, a directional sensor having plural pixels including two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric conversion elements, the directional sensor including plural pixels for selectively receiving light beams of light fluxes which are incident via the central optical system and the circular optical system by applying pupil division, an image readout device that acquires from the directional sensor each of an image signal representing a first image received via the central optical system and an image signal representing a second image received via the circular optical system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image pickup device comprising:
a photographing optical system having a central optical system disposed at a central region and a circular optical system disposed at an outer portion of the central optical system which are arranged along the same optical axis;
a directional sensor having plural pixels including two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric conversion elements, the directional sensor including plural pixels for selectively receiving light beams of light fluxes which are incident via the central optical system and the circular optical system by applying pupil division; and
an image readout device that acquires from the directional sensor each of an image signal representing a first image received via the central optical system and an image signal representing a second image received via the circular optical system,
wherein the directional sensor having directional characteristics depending on pupil shapes of the central optical system and the circular optical system at an image surface position is used,
wherein the directional sensor has a microlens serving as a pupil division device, the microlens dividing a pupil image and each divided pupil image entering the pixel, and the number of the pixels allocated to one microlens decreases as an image height increases.

2. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein a size of each pixel in the directional sensor is identical, and a size of the microlens used decreases as the image height increases.

3. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the microlens is identical, and a size of the pixel in the directional sensor increases as the image height increases.

4. The image pickup device according to claim 2 , wherein the central optical system has larger image forming magnification at the central region and smaller image forming magnification at a periphery side.

5. The image pickup device according to claim 2 , wherein the circular optical system has smaller image forming magnification on an inner diameter side and larger image forming magnification on an outer diameter side.

6. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein the directional sensor has a light shielding mask serving as a pupil division device, and the light shielding mask having an opening shape depending on pupil shapes of the central optical system and the circular optical system at an image surface position is used.

7. An image pickup device comprising:
a photographing optical system having a central optical system disposed at a central region and a circular optical system disposed at an outer portion of the central optical system which are arranged along the same optical axis;
a directional sensor having plural pixels including two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric conversion elements, the directional sensor including plural pixels for selectively receiving light beams of light fluxes which are incident via the central optical system and the circular optical system by applying pupil division; and
an image readout device that acquires from the directional sensor each of an image signal representing a first image received via the central optical system and an image signal representing a second image received via the circular optical system, wherein
a first image circle for the central optical system is different from a second image circle for the circular optical system, and
the directional sensor has the pixel for selectively receiving light by applying the pupil division disposed at only a region where the first image circle and the second image circle overlap one another.

8. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein the central optical system has wider angle as compared with the circular optical system.

9. An image pickup device comprising:
a photographing optical system having a central optical system disposed at a central region and a circular optical system disposed at an outer portion of the central optical system which are arranged along the same optical axis;
a directional sensor having plural pixels including two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric conversion elements, the directional sensor including plural pixels for selectively receiving light beams of light fluxes which are incident via the central optical system and the circular optical system by applying pupil division; and
an image readout device that acquires from the directional sensor each of an image signal representing a first image received via the central optical system and an image signal representing a second image received via the circular optical system, wherein the central optical system has wider angle as compared with the circular optical system,

wherein the circular optical system has a catoptric system for reflecting the light flux two or more times.

10. The image pickup device according to claim 9 , wherein the directional sensor is positioned on an object side with respect to the catoptric system which first reflects the light flux.

11. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein the central optical system and the circular optical system share a part of the optical system.

12. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , comprising a mode switcher that switches between a first imaging mode and a second imaging mode different in a focal length from each other,
wherein
the image readout device acquires from the directional sensor the image signal representing the first image obtained by receiving light via the central optical system when the mode switcher switches to the first imaging mode, and acquires from the directional sensor the image signal representing the second image obtained by receiving light via the circular optical system when the mode switcher switches to the second imaging mode.

13. The image pickup device according to claim 12 , wherein
the mode switcher has a switching function to switch to a hybrid imaging mode for performing two kinds of imaging different in the focal length, and
the image readout device simultaneously acquires from the directional sensor the image signal representing the first image obtained by receiving light via the central optical system and the image signal representing the second image obtained by receiving light via the circular optical system when the mode switcher switches to the hybrid imaging mode.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Ono Shuji

Classifications

• G02B13/02 Primary

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