SINGLE LENS 3-D CAMERA

摘要

A camera includes a lens configured to admit light rays from a scene where the lens has a left portion and a right portion, wherein left and right portion has the same correspondence as a viewer's left eye and right eye. A pair of orthogonal polarizing filters corresponding to the left and right lens portions arranged with the lens bifurcate the light rays into a left group and a right group of two orthogonally polarized groups of rays. One or more focal plane image detectors are configured to distinguishably receive two orthogonally polarized images in a single frame on the basis of the pair of orthogonal polarizing filters. A 3-D image processor decodes the two orthogonally polarized images in the single frame received from the one or more focal-plane image detectors into signals corresponding to a "left eye" view image and a "right eye" view image.