STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE

摘要

A polarization plane control element (106) is constituted from a polarization plate and a liquid crystal element, and non-polarized light can be converted to linearly polarized light of any polarization plane according to voltage. A synchronization device (112) sends a command for polarization plane rotation to the polarization plane control element (106), causes the subject to be irradiated with the polarization plane of the illumination rotated, and simultaneously sends a signal to commence imaging to an imaging element (110) to obtain an image, and implements this multiple times. A signal for the imaged image is sent to an image processing processor (108) via an image signal line (111). LL, RR and CC images, which are images passing through left and right polarization apertures and a non-polarizing part that is positioned centrally, are then separation generated, and left and right parallax images are generated and sent to a stereoscopic display unit (122).