Patent ID: 11631713

Abstract:
In an information compression unit 311, in an image capturing unit 121 (221), among a plurality of pixel output units that receives object light that enters without passing through any of an image capturing lens and a pinhole, pixel outputs of at least two of the pixel output units have incident angle directivity modulated into different incident angle directivity according to an incident angle of the object light. The information compression unit 311 performs compression processing to reduce an amount of data of pixel output information generated by the image capturing unit 121 (221). For example, by computation of a difference between set reference value information and the pixel output information, linear calculation of a set calculation parameter and the pixel output information, and the like, the information compression unit 311 reduces a word length of the pixel output information, and reduces the amount of data of the pixel output information generated according to the object light that enters without passing through any of an image capturing lens and a pinhole.