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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas H Judd, Madison, NJ (US);
Lanny S Smoot, Morristown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 53 ; 358 87 ; 358231 ;
Abstract
A station for use in a teleconferencing system is disclosed. The station includes an arrangement comprising a plurality of image sensing devices, each of which provides a sub-image. The sub-images are joined to form a single high resolution video display. Illustratively, the arrangement comprises a plurality of image sensing devices and one or more mirrors to insure that the fields of view of the image sensing devices are contiguous at all relevant distances. Alternatively, an array of image sensing devices may be utilized wherein the horizontal and vertical scans of the devices are cropped.