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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2005
Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr., Lafayette, CO (US);
Kenneth Scott Kubala, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert H. Cormack, Boulder, CO (US);
Paulo E. X. Silveira, Boulder, CO (US);
Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr., Lafayette, CO (US);
Kenneth Scott Kubala, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert H. Cormack, Boulder, CO (US);
Paulo E. X. Silveira, Boulder, CO (US);
OmniVision CDM Optics, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Low height imaging systems may include one or more optical channels and a detector array. Each of the optical channels may be associated with one or more detectors of the array, have one or more optical components and a restrictive ray corrector, and be configured to direct steeper incident angle field rays onto the detectors. Alternatively, each of the optical channels may be associated with at least one detector, and have an aspheric GRIN lens. Another low height imaging system has an array of detectors and a GRIN lens having a surface with wavefront coding and configured to direct steeper incident angle field rays onto more than one of the detectors. One method forms a lens with wavefront coding. The method includes positioning a lens in a mold; and curing material onto a surface of the lens to form an aspheric surface of the lens with wavefront coding.