43 results about "Stopping down" patented technology

An image pickup apparatus includes an element-including optical system, a variable aperture, a detector, and a converter. The element-including optical system has an optical system and an optical wavefront modulation element which modulates an optical transfer function. The detector picks up an object image that passes through the optical system, the variable aperture, and the optical wavefront modulation element. The converter generates an image signal with a smaller blur than that of a signal of a blurred object image output from the detector. Positions at which the element-including optical system and the detector are attached are adjusted by stopping down a variable aperture included in the element-including optical system.

An iris diaphragm device has at least one lens shutter for adjusting the size of an aperture through which incident light passes. At least one ND filter is installed to move independently of the lens shutter, and reduces the amount of incident light by covering the aperture stopped down by the lens shutter.

An iris diaphragm includes at least one lens shutter to adjust the size of an aperture that incident light passes through according to movement of the at least one lens shutter. At least one ND filter is installed to move independently of the lens shutter to reduce the amount of incident light by covering the aperture stopped-down by the lens shutter according to the movement of the at least one ND filter.

The exposure time for obtaining a bright image in an image-acquisition optical system can be reduced, and shifting of an image visually observed in an observation optical system is prevented, thus enabling stable observation. A microscope including an image-acquisition optical path for recording an image focused by an objective lens and an observation optical path for visually observing an image split-off from the image-acquisition optical path; and including an aperture stop, in the observation optical path, for stopping down the numerical aperture thereof to smaller than the numerical aperture of the image-acquisition optical path.

A photo diode and a resistor are connected to each other in series. A gate of a FET is connected to the connection of the photo diode and the resistor. When a photometry switch is turned on, the photo diode generates a photo current according to a subject brightness. A potential difference is generated between the both terminal of the resistor. When the subject brightness is less than a threshold level, the FET is not turned on because of low potential difference of the resistor. When a subject brightness is equal to or more than the threshold level, the FET is turned on because of high potential difference of the resistor. A first transistor turned to be in a state opposite to the FET and a second transistor turned on and off according the state of the first transistor are provided. When the FET is turned off, the second transistor is turned on, and a solenoid is powered. The solenoid moves a stop plate out of an optical axis such that an exposure is taken through a large stop opening. When the FET is turned on, the second transistor is turned off, so the solenoid is not driven. Since the stop plate is set on the optical axis, an exposure is taken through a stop-down opening.

An image pickup apparatus which is capable of suppressing generation of shadows even when the aperture of the photographic lens is stopped down. A digital camera as an image pickup apparatus includes a photographic lens, a image pickup element that picks up an image of an object, and an optical low-pass filter disposed between the photographic lens and the image pickup element. The filter includes a liner phase diffraction grating having unit cells which are disposed in a regular pattern at a grating pitch P and are formed by equal-width recesses and equal-width protrusions adjacent to each other. When a shortest wavelength of a reference wavelength employed is λS, and a longest wavelength of the reference wavelength is λL, an optical path difference ΔH between lengths of optical paths of light of which a phase is varied by the phase grating is larger than λS / 2 and smaller than λL / 2.

An image sensing apparatus is provided with an aperture unit (104), an image sensor (106) that converts light beams entering through a photographing lens (103) and the aperture unit into electrical signals, and a display unit (107), including an electronic viewfinder mode to continuously display on the display unit images based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor. The image sensing apparatus has a control unit (135) that causes the aperture unit to stop down, when there is an instruction to display on the display unit an image other than the image based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor while in the electronic viewfinder mode.

The imaging device of the present invention includes: an image sensor 14 that is configured such that a plurality of pixels having an organic layer (14-4) for photoelectric conversion is two-dimensionally arranged, and each pixel of the image sensor (14) is divided into a plurality of regions, and has an on-chip microlens (15), which forms a pupil image of a optical imaging system on the plurality of regions, and reading sections (16) which respectively read photoelectrically converted signals of the plurality of divided regions; an optical diaphragm that mechanically stops down rays which are incident into the image sensor 14; and an electronic diaphragm section that electronically controls an aperture value, and that selects signals of the divided regions corresponding to the aperture value from the signals of the plurality of divided regions, on the basis of the aperture value which is controlled by the optical diaphragm.

There is provided a projector having a point light source disposed to an edge of an optical fiber for transmitting exciting light and including a fluorescent illuminant for emitting fluorescence by being exited by the exiting light, a light collecting optical system for collecting the fluorescence emitted from the point light source, a reflective display device for reflecting the fluorescence collected by the light collecting optical system and overlapping the fluorescence with an image signal, an outgoing aperture for stopping down the fluorescence overlapped with the image signal by the reflective display device, wherein the outgoing aperture and the point light source are disposed side by side in the vicinity of the front focusing surface of the light collecting optical system. With this arrangement, a bright projected image can be obtained while disposing the outgoing aperture and the point light source sufficiently near to each other, reducing aberration, and reducing the diameter of a collecting lens so that the overall size of the projector can be reduced.

An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section for photoelectrically converting a subject image, and outputting image data, an aperture control section for narrowing subject light flux at a first aperture value and a second aperture value, a shooting control section for, in response to a release instruction, imaging a first image at the first aperture value and, reading out first image data from the imaging section while simultaneously carrying out a stopping down operation to the second aperture value, imaging a second image at the second aperture value and, reading out second image data from the imaging section, and an image processing section for detecting an amount of variation in contrast value for each location in the first image data and the second image data, and carrying out processing to blur at an intensity of blurring according to the amount of variation between each location.