Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging method and system with angle-discrimination layer
- Patent Title (中): 具有角度辨别层的成像方法和系统
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Application No.: US13164957Application Date: 2011-06-21
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Publication No.: US08970767B2Publication Date: 2015-03-03
- Inventor: Russell Wayne Gruhlke , Ye Yin , Zheng-wu Li
- Applicant: Russell Wayne Gruhlke , Ye Yin , Zheng-wu Li
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; G09G5/00 ; G02B13/00 ; G06F3/042 ; G09G3/34

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for an imaging system that includes a light guide having light-turning features that are configured to receive ambient light incident on the light guide, including light scattered from a scene to be imaged, and to direct the received ambient light towards an image sensor. The light-turning features may have angle-discriminating properties so that some light-turning features capture light incident upon the light guide at certain angles of incidence, but not others. Light scattered from multiple parts of a scene to be imaged may then be directed to correlated locations on an image sensor, which provides electronic data representing an image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120327288A1 IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH ANGLE-DISCRIMINATION LAYER Public/Granted day:2012-12-27
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