Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mirror-based scene cameras
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Application No.: US16583193Application Date: 2019-09-25
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Publication No.: US11187914B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Daniel R. Hennigan , Noah D. Bedard , Branko Petljanski , Jason C. Sauers , Edward S. Huo , Ricardo J. Motta , Brett D. Miller , Yury Petrov
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: G02B27/14
- IPC: G02B27/14 ; G02B27/01 ; G02B5/08 ; G02B30/35

Abstract:
A scene camera system that includes two or more mirrors that reflect light from a respective portion of a field of view (FOV) in front of the system and two or more cameras that each capture the light reflected by a respective one of the two or more mirrors. By using the mirrors to reflect the light, the cameras' entrance pupils are imaged to a location closer to a user's eyes to thus achieve a more accurate representation of the perspective of the user.
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