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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Fotonation Limited, Galway, IE;
Inventors:
Piotr Stec, Galway, IE;
Brian O'Sullivan, Galway, IE;
Assignee:
FotoNation Limited, Galway, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/357 (2011.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3572 (2013.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01);
Abstract
A method for compensating for off-axis tilting of a lens relative to an image sensor in an image acquisition device comprises acquiring a set of calibrated parameters corresponding to the tilting of said lens. P' and P′ indicate a coordinate of a pixel in an acquired image. Image information is mapped from the acquired image to a lens tilt compensated image according to the formulae: where s comprises a scale factor given by and where uand uindicate the location of a pixel in the lens tilt compensated image.