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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2001
Applicant:
Adrian Robert Leigh Travis, South Devon, GB;
Inventor:
Adrian Robert Leigh Travis, South Devon, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flat-panel camera comprises a tapered transparent slaba prismatic sheetfor introducing light into one face of the slab at near the critical angle so that it is reflected along the slab towards the thick end, and a miniature camerareceiving light emerging from the thick end of the slab at an angle depending on where the light entered the slab. An image processoreliminates distortion in the image such as gaps caused by the light missing the camera.
Published as:
GB0029340D0; WO0245413A1; AU2210002A; EP1352517A1; US2004046870A1; JP2004515170A; EP1352517B1; DE60104146D1; DE60104146T2; CN1593056A; CN1262105C; JP4005915B2; US7545429B2;