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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
May. 24, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Todor Georgiev Georgiev, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Wesley Osborne, San Diego, CA (US);
Sergiu Radu Goma, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects relate to an array camera exhibiting little or no parallax artifacts in captured images. For example, the planes of the central mirror surfaces of the array camera can be located at a midpoint along, and orthogonally to, a line between the corresponding camera location and the virtual camera location. Accordingly, the cones of all of the cameras in the array appear as if coming from the virtual camera location after folding by the mirrors. Each sensor in the array 'sees' a portion of the image scene using a corresponding facet of the central mirror prism, and accordingly each individual sensor/mirror pair represents only a sub-aperture of the total array camera. The complete array camera has a synthetic aperture generated based on the sum of all individual aperture rays.