Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fast computational camera based on two arrays of lenses
- Patent Title (中): 基于两个镜头阵列的快速计算相机
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Application No.: US11874611Application Date: 2007-10-18
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Publication No.: US07956924B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Todor G. Georgiev
- Applicant: Todor G. Georgiev
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225

Abstract:
Method and apparatus for a fast (low F/number) computational camera that incorporates two arrays of lenses. The arrays include a lenslet array in front of a photosensor and an objective lens array of two or more lenses. Each lens in the objective lens array captures light from a subject. Each lenslet in the lenslet array captures light from each objective lens and separates the captured light to project microimages corresponding to the objective lenses on a region of the photosensor under the lenslet. Thus, a plurality of microimages are projected onto and captured by the photosensor. The captured microimages may be processed in accordance with the geometry of the objective lenses to align the microimages to generate a final image. One or more other algorithms may be applied to the image data in accordance with radiance information captured by the camera, such as automatic refocusing of an out-of-focus image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090102956A1 Fast Computational Camera Based On Two Arrays of Lenses Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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