Patent ID: 6859229
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: a plurality of openings for taking in external light at different positions; a filter for extracting from external light taken in from the plurality of openings, predetermined wavelength components of object light correspondingly to said plurality of openings, respectively; a plurality of image pickup portions for receiving the predetermined wavelength components extracted by said filter correspondingly to the plurality of openings, respectively; and a plurality of optical systems for guiding the predetermined wavelength components extracted by said filter to the corresponding image pickup portions, respectively, wherein, when a virtual object distance D [m] is defined as a function of an image pickup angle θ [°] of said plurality of optical systems to be D=1.4/tan (θ/2), an interval between optical axes of said plurality of optical systems is set such that change in an interval between an object image received by a first image pickup portion which is one of said plurality of image pickup portions and an object image received by a second image pickup portion which is another one of said plurality of image pickup portions between when an object exists at the virtual object distance and when the object exists at infinity is smaller than a pixel pitch of said plurality of image pickup portions multiplied by two.