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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Noah D. Bedard, Pacifica, CA (US);
Ricardo J. Motta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Emanuele Mandelli, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel R. Hennigan, Livermore, CA (US);
Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Los Altos, CA (US);
Branko Petljanski, San Jose, CA (US);
Brett D. Miller, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kenichi Saito, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A device for MR/VR systems that includes a two-dimensional array of cameras that capture images of respective portions of a scene. The cameras are positioned along a spherical surface so that the cameras have adjacent fields of view. The entrance pupils of the cameras are positioned at or near the user's eye while the cameras also form optimized images at the sensor. Methods for reducing the number of cameras in an array, as well as methods for reducing the number of pixels read from the array and processed by the pipeline, are also described.