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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Gal Shabtay, Tel-Aviv, IL;
David Mendlovic, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Christopher Aubuchon, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai Engelhardt, Buckenhof, DE;
Gal Shabtay, Tel-Aviv, IL;
David Mendlovic, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Christopher Aubuchon, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai Engelhardt, Buckenhof, DE;
DigitalOptics Corporation Europe Limited, Ballybrit, Galway, IE;
Abstract
An image capturing device may include a detector including a plurality of sensing pixels, and an optical system adapted to project a distorted image of an object within a field of view onto the sensing pixels, wherein the optical system expands the image in a center of the field of view and compresses the image in a periphery of the field of view, wherein a first number of sensing pixels required to realize a maximal zoom magnification {circumflex over (Z)} at a minimum resolution of the image capturing device is less than a square of the maximal zoom magnification times a second number of sensing pixels required for the minimum resolution.