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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2012
Applicants:
Gary Edwin Sutton, La Jolla, CA (US);
Douglas Gene Lockie, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gary Edwin Sutton, La Jolla, CA (US);
Douglas Gene Lockie, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for a Curved Sensor System are disclosed. The present invention includes a wide variety of generally curved, aspheric or non-planar arrangement of sensors and their equivalents. The curved surfaces, edges or boundaries that define the geometry of the present invention may be continuous, or may be collections or aggregations of many small linear, planar or other segments which are able to approximate a curved line or surface.