Patent ID: 8379084

Claim:
An image pickup comprising: a light emission portion configured to irradiate an object with near infrared; and an image pickup portion configured to receive a reflection light image of the object by the near infrared, the image pickup portion comprising: a lens array comprising a substrate on which multiple lenses to respectively receive the reflection light image of the object by the near infrared are arranged; a light shield spacer configured to shield beams of light that have passed through the lens array from each other; a color filter separated into areas according to beams of light that pass through the light shield spacer, each of the areas being configured to transmit only particular beams of near infrared depending on wavelengths thereof; and an image pickup element configured to simultaneously obtain multiple images of the object which are formed of each of the particular beams of near infrared having independent wavelengths that have passed through each of the areas of the color filter.