Patent ID: 9036004
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G03B,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A 3D image capture device comprising: a light transmitting member with n polarizing areas where n is an integer that is equal to or greater than two, each of which transmits only a light ray that is polarized in a particular direction, and a non-polarizing area that transmits any light ray irrespective of its polarization direction, the n polarizing areas having mutually different transmission axis directions parallel to a polarization direction of the light that is transmitted through each respective polarizing area; a solid-state image sensor which is arranged to receive the light ray that has been transmitted through the light transmitting member and which includes a pixel array and a filter array, the pixel array being divided into a plurality of pixel blocks, each of which includes n+1 pixels, the filter array being divided into a plurality of filter blocks, each of which includes n polarization filters that are arranged so as to face n out of the n+1 pixels and that have mutually different transmission axis directions parallel to a polarization direction of the light that is transmitted through each respective polarization filter, each of the n polarization filters configured to make at least part of light rays that have been transmitted through the n polarizing areas and at least part of light rays that have been transmitted through the non-polarizing area incident on one of the n+1 pixels that faces the polarization filter at the same time; an imaging section for producing an image on the imaging area of the solid-state image sensor; and an image generating section configured to calculate n+1 images associated with the light rays that have entered the n polarizing areas and on the non-polarizing area using n+1 pixel signals supplied from the n+1 pixels.