Patent ID: 8325267
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup optical system including an optical element having optical incident and optical emergent surfaces and a fine textured structure having a mean pitch shorter than a wavelength of visible light, the fine textured structure being formed on at least one of the optical incident and optical emergent surfaces, the optical element being disposed between an aperture stop and an object; and an image pickup unit configured to receive an image formed by the image pickup optical system, wherein the following condition is satisfied: where, in a first image pickup range as an effective range of the image pickup unit and in a second image pickup range smaller than the first image pickup range, R1 is an effective diameter determined by a height when, among light rays forming an image at a maximum off-axis image height in the first image pickup range, a light ray that passes through a center of the aperture stop passes through the optical surface on which the fine textured structure is formed, R2 is an effective diameter determined by a height when, among light rays forming an image at a maximum off-axis image height in the second image pickup range, a light ray that passes through the center of the aperture stop passes through the optical surface on which the fine textured structure is formed, and R0 is a diameter when light rays forming an image on an optical axis pass through the optical surface on which the fine textured structure is formed.