Patent ID: 7061526
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup device, comprising a spectroscope which makes an optical image of an object to be picked up as condensed by a condensing lens system incident and which separates the same into two directions, an overall image pickup portion which forms one optical image as separated by the spectroscope as an overall image of the object to be picked up on an image-forming surface disposed with a primary area pickup element as reduced in size through a primary image-forming lens system and which picks the overall image up by the primary area pickup element so as to output an overall image signal, and a detailed image pickup portion which forms the other optical image as separated by the spectroscope as an image on an image-forming surface disposed with a secondary area pickup element having a resolution equivalent to the primary area pickup element as enlarged in size through a secondary image-forming lens system and which picks a part of the overall image up by the secondary area pickup element so as to output a detailed image signal of high resolution.