Imaging apparatus

• US 20060250514A1
• Filed: 07/10/2006
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Inoue, Mitsuo, Sugiura, Hiroaki, Sasagawa, Tomohiro, Hamamura, Masao
• Application Number:
  US11/482,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20060250514A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/156 Mixing image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/218 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof

Abstract

An imaging apparatus including at least an imaging device having a plurality of photoelectric transfer devices arranged in matrix-shape to detect a light irradiated to each photoelectric transfer device and transfer to electric signal, and imaging means for imaging an image of a photogenic object on a surface of the imaging devices. The imaging means images at least two similar images of the photogenic subject on different area of the surface of the imaging device, and the imaging apparatus further includes electric signal processing means to form one image of photogenic subject from at least two images of photogenic subject. Since a plurality of images of photogenic subject can be formed on the imaging device by a plurality of image formation lenses, a thinner imaging apparatus can be realized.

Claims

1. An image apparatus comprising:

an imaging device having a plurality of photoelectric transfer devices arranged in matrix-shape to detect a light irradiated to each photoelectric transfer device and transfer the light into an electric signal;

an optical component comprising a plurality of lenses which are unified and arranged in a plane parallel to a light-receiving surface of said imaging device.

2. The image apparatus of claim 1, wherein said optical component consists essentially of material having a linear expansion coefficient of not more than 1E-5/°

C.

3. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein said optical component comprises a substrate having a linear expansion coefficient of not more than 1E-5/°

C. and a plurality of lenses which are bonded on said substrate.

4. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein said optical component includes a plurality of lenses and an optical center of each of said plurality of lenses is aligned axially with a center of a corresponding one of said photoelectric transfer devices.

5. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electrical signal processing means interleaves pixels of corresponding position of the at least two images of the photogenic object.