| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image capturing apparatus that generates a high-resolution image without complicated control of an optical system. <P>SOLUTION: A compound-eye image capturing apparatus includes M imaging systems (M is a natural number of 2 or more) comprising an optical system and an image sensor, respectively. The imaging system includes one reference imaging system and M-1 subordinate imaging systems. An imaging face of an image sensor of the reference imaging system and an imaging face of an image sensor of each subordinate imaging system are arranged substantially in the same plane. The image sensor of the reference imaging system and the image sensor of each subordinate imaging system are arrayed on the straight line substantially parallel to the pixel array direction of the image sensor. When the length of one pixel of the image sensor of the subordinate imaging system is set as W, the image sensor of the L-th subordinate imaging system (L is a positive integer whose maximum value is M-1) in the subordinate imaging systems is arrayed at a distance of W×((L/M)+N) (N is a natural number including 0) in a direction substantially orthogonal to the straight line with respect to the image sensor of the reference imaging system in the plane. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |
