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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2014
Applicant:

Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;

Inventors:

Paul Kerbiriou, Thorigne-Fouillard, FR;

Matis Hudon, Epinay sur Orge, FR;

Olivier Bureller, Cesson Sevigne, FR;

Assignee:

THOMSON LICENSING, Issy les Moulineaux, unknown;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G03B 15/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/353 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); G03B 15/05 (2013.01); G03B 2215/0596 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic imaging device having a plurality of photosensitive cells arranged in an array to form a frame region, the frame region being composed of a plurality of frame sub-regions each frame sub-region corresponding to a sub-set of photosensitive cells, the device comprising an array controller configured to expose each of said frame sub-regions during an exposure duration wherein the exposure of at least some of said frame sub-regions occurs at different times during a total time of exposure of the frame region, a flash unit for illuminating a scene to be imaged during a flash time duration an activator for activating the flash unit to illuminate the scene to be imaged at a flash time delay determined in dependence upon said exposure duration of a frame sub region and the flash time duration; an image data acquisition unit for acquiring a set of frames of the scene wherein the time of occurrence of a flash event within a frame shifts temporally from frame to frame; and an image reconstruction unit for constructing a sequence of images from the frame sub-regions of the acquired frames.


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