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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2012
Ronald Fischer, Hollywood, CA (US);
Abraham Rank, Lake Balboa, CA (US);
Ronald Fischer, Hollywood, CA (US);
Abraham Rank, Lake Balboa, CA (US);
NBCUniversal, LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A device (e.g., an image capture device, or camera) includes a sensor and a filtering apparatus. Incident light received by the device includes visible spectrum light and infrared light. The filtering apparatus can alternately filter out the infrared light while allowing the sensor to be exposed to the visible spectrum light, and filter out the visible spectrum light while allowing the sensor to be exposed to the infrared light. For example, the filtering apparatus can include a shutter that, when in a first position, filters out the infrared light and, when in a second position, filters out the visible spectrum light. In particular, the shutter can be a rotating shutter that includes a visible spectrum pass filter in one sector and an infrared pass filter in another sector.