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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2013
Applied Quantum Technologies, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Scott Thomas McCain, Durham, NC (US);
David Jones Brady, Durham, NC (US);
Daniel Marks, Durham, NC (US);
Applied Quantum Technologies, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A panoramic imager comprising a mirror and a multi-scale imaging system is presented. The multi-scale imaging system comprises an objective lens and a plurality of cameras that is arranged in a non-planar arrangement at the image field of the objective lens. The objective lens reduces a first aberration introduced by the mirror, and each camera further reduces any residual first aberration. As a result, panoramic imagers of the present invention can provide improved image quality and higher resolution than panoramic imagers of the prior art.