Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital camera including refocusable imaging mode adaptor
- Patent Title (中): 数码相机包括可重新对焦的成像模式适配器
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Application No.: US13239472Application Date: 2011-09-22
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Publication No.: US08593564B2Publication Date: 2013-11-26
- Inventor: John Norvold Border , Richard D. Young
- Applicant: John Norvold Border , Richard D. Young
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225

Abstract:
A digital camera system configurable to operate in a low-resolution refocusable mode and a high-resolution non-refocusable mode comprising: a camera body; an image sensor mounted in the camera body having a plurality of sensor pixels for capturing a digital image; an imaging lens for forming an image of a scene onto an image plane, the imaging lens having an aperture; and an adaptor that can be inserted between the imaging lens and the image sensor to provide the low-resolution refocusable mode and can be removed to provide the high-resolution non-refocusable mode, the adaptor including a microlens array with a plurality of microlenses; wherein when the adaptor is inserted to provide the low-resolution refocusable mode, the microlens array is positioned between the imaging lens and the image sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130076930A1 DIGITAL CAMERA INCLUDING REFOCUSABLE IMAGING MODE ADAPTOR Public/Granted day:2013-03-28
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