Patent ID: 8463001
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: A23L,G06K

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data of an object subjected to image pickup on the basis of light condensed by the microlens array section; and an image processing section performing image processing on the image pickup data obtained by the image pickup device to obtain image-processed data, wherein after the image processing section performs a central region clipping process and an image reversing process in each of image pickup regions of the microlenses on the image pickup data, the image processing section performs an image synthesizing process using images in central regions of the image pickup regions to obtain the image-processed data, and wherein in the case where the object subjected to image pickup is placed in a position at an object-side focal length of the microlens array section, a central region at the time of the central region clipping process is defined by a value determined by multiplying a pitch length between the microlenses by a down-magnification performed by the microlenses.