US 11,689,830 B2
Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system
Chiaki Inoue, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/368,672.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-119816 (JP), filed on Jul. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0014703 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 9/07 (2006.01); H04N 9/09 (2006.01); H04N 9/79 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); G06V 10/14 (2022.01); G06V 40/19 (2022.01); H04N 25/77 (2023.01); H04N 25/71 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/77 (2023.01) [H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H04N 25/71 (2023.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus configured to acquire a plurality of spectral images of an object, the apparatus comprising at least one processor,
wherein the at least one processor executes a control task configured to store in a memory information on a spectral image, among the plurality of spectral images, corresponding to a recording wavelength band according to an input by a user,
wherein the apparatus acquires the plurality of spectral images by imaging the object through a plurality of lens units with different optical axes each configured to form an image of the object, and a plurality of filters each of which is disposed on a corresponding one of the optical axes.