发明名称 Array of cameras with various focal distances
摘要 A photography device includes a plurality of cameras arranged as an array. The array may include multiple cameras with different focal distances. Each camera has a different focal distance. Or groups of cameras in an array may share multiple focal distances. The cameras may provide a similar field of view and similar magnification. A unified image is formed by combining the images from the different cameras.
申请公布号 US9241111(B1) 申请公布日期 2016.01.19
申请号 US201313905938 申请日期 2013.05.30
申请人 AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 发明人 Baldwin Leo Benedict
分类号 G03B13/00;H04N5/232;H04N5/262 主分类号 G03B13/00
代理机构 Seyfarth Shaw LLP 代理人 Seyfarth Shaw LLP ;Barzilay Ilan N.;Klein David A.
主权项 1. A photography device including an array of cameras of different focal distances arranged to simultaneously take a picture, the device comprising: at least one processor; the array of cameras comprising a first, second and third camera, each camera having a different in-focus focal distance and comprising at least three image sensors, each image sensor being paired with a lens, the lenses of the image sensors of each camera providing the in-focus focal distance of the respective camera; a memory device including instructions operable to be executed by the at least one processor to perform a set of actions, configuring the at least one processor: to receive image data from the first, second, and third cameras;to rectify the image data, for each respective camera, to correct differences of disparity and alignment between images from the at least three image sensors of the respective camera, to produce rectified images for each of the cameras; andto combine the rectified images into a unified image, the unified image to be a composite of the rectified images from all three cameras, wherein the first camera has a first in-focus focal distance,the second camera has a second in-focus focal distance, greater than that of the first camera,the third camera has a third in-focus focal distance, greater than that of the first and second cameras,each of the cameras and each image sensor of the at least three image sensors of each of the cameras, provides a similar field of view and similar magnification, andspatial separation of the lenses of each camera of the array of cameras are arranged based on the in-focus focal distance, all of the lenses of the first camera being clustered proximate to each other, and at least two of the lenses of the third camera not being proximate to each other.
地址 Reno NV US