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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Applicants:
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Ithaca, NY (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Inventors:
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Ithaca, NY (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Assignee:
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a camera is provided. The camera comprises a lens and a sensor to record an image focused by the lens in N color bands, wherein N equals a number of color bands, with the number and respective locations and widths of the N color bands being selected to optimize the image for processing.