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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sijie Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Rui L. Peterson, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew C Waldon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/351 (2011.01); H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2253 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/3454 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging device includes objective optics configured to form an image at a focal plane and having an optical axis that intersects the focal plane at an optical center. An image sensor, which includes an array of sensor elements arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, is positioned in the focal plane with a center point of the matrix displaced transversely by at least ten rows relative to the optical center.