ADJUSTABLE VARIABLE RESOLUTION INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING MULTIPLE IMAGE SENSORS

摘要

Camera heads having multiple image sensors, configured to provide digitally articulated images or video, at adjustable resolutions and/or offsets and orientations, to a camera control unit (CCU) or other electronic computing system for display, storage, and/or transmission to other systems are disclosed.

主权项

1. A method of providing a variable-resolution visual display in an inspection system, comprising:
capturing a first image, covering a first field of view, in an electronic imaging element of a camera head, the electronic imaging element including an image sensor and imaging optics; converting the first image to a first analog signal; providing the first analog signal to an electronic computing system; sensing a condition associated with the camera head; generating, responsive to the sensing, ones of a plurality of tiled images corresponding to tiled subsets of the first field of view; converting the plurality of tiled images to a second analog signal; providing the second analog signal to the electronic computing system; capturing a subsequent image in a second electronic imaging element of the camera head; and generating a third analog signal based at least in part on the subsequent image.