Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging using optical cavity
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Application No.: US16687693Application Date: 2019-11-19
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Publication No.: US11457132B2Publication Date: 2022-09-27
- Inventor: Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi , Matthew Tancik
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N5/265 ; G02B5/28 ; G02B27/28 ; H04N5/262 ; G01S17/88 ; G01S7/48 ; G01S7/481 ; G01S17/42 ; G02B27/14 ; G01S17/894 ; G06T7/521 ; G02B27/30

Abstract:
In illustrative implementations, an imaging system may comprise a lens, an optical cavity and a time-of-flight camera. The imaging system may capture an image of a scene. The image may be formed by light that is from the scene and that passes through the optical cavity and the lens. In some cases, the lens is in front of the optical cavity, enabling the Euclidean distance between the lens and the camera sensor to be less than the nominal focal length of the lens. In some cases, the lens is inside the optical cavity, enabling the camera to acquire ultrafast multi-zoom images without moving or changing the shape of any optical element. In some cases, the lens is behind the optical cavity, enabling the system to perform ultrafast multi-spectral imaging. In other cases, an optical cavity between the scene and time-of-camera enables ultrafast ellipsometry measurements or ultrafast spatial frequency filtering.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200081169A1 Imaging Using Optical Cavity Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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