Electronic iris for a camera
    52.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09998681B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-12

    申请号:US15196025

    申请日:2016-06-28

    Applicant: GoPro, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N5/238

    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronically controlled camera iris device. The camera iris device may include a transparent conductor layer supplying an input voltage controlling the diameter of the aperture, a transparent resistance layer providing different voltages in different regions varying based on the distance from a center point, and a diaphragm layer that can be independently controlled in different regions to block or transmit light incident on the diaphragm layer when corresponding control voltages are applied on the diaphragm layer. The camera iris device can be configured to have a desired diameter by controlling a first region of the diaphragm layer to transmit the light and a second region of the diaphragm layer outside of the first region to block the light. The diaphragm layer may include a Bragg grating layer or an Electrochromic layer.

    TUNABLE POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL GRIN LENS

    公开(公告)号:US20180143505A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-24

    申请号:US15603383

    申请日:2017-05-23

    Applicant: GoPro, Inc.

    Abstract: A camera system includes an image sensor assembly and a tunable optical element. The tunable optical element is a gradient index (GRIN) lens created from a polymer dispersed liquid crystal and a coupled control element. The GRIN lens is tunable by applying an electric field to the optical element via a control element. The control element applies a voltage differential to the optical element inducing an electric field which changes the polarization of the PDLC within the optical element. The electrodes of the control element can include sheet resistors with a radially dependent voltage drop. The refractive index of the GRIN lens is dependent on the polarization of the liquid crystals within the optical element. Applying the electric field to the tunable element changes the optical properties of the grating.

    Generating Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Content for a Live Event

    公开(公告)号:US20180122141A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15336713

    申请日:2016-10-27

    Applicant: GoPro, Inc.

    Abstract: A content visualization system generates visual content for a visualization device based on visual content of a live event. The content visualization system collects visual content and source perspective data from visual content sources. The visualization device requests visual content from the content visualization system by providing device perspective data to the content visualization system. The content visualization system generates visual content for the visualization device based on the visual content from the visual content sources, the source perspective data, and the device perspective data. The content visualization system can determine visual content that is relevant to the device perspective by identifying source perspectives that overlap with the device perspective. The content visualization system generates visual content for the visualization device based on the identified visual content. The content visualization system can generate composited or non-composited visual content, based on the similarity of the source perspectives to the device perspective.

    Lens and sensor positioning system
    57.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09930234B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-27

    申请号:US15173524

    申请日:2016-06-03

    Applicant: GoPro, Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N5/2254 G02B7/022 H04N5/2252 H04N5/2253

    Abstract: A positioning system is designed to align a lens barrel with a sensor assembly. A first end of a lens barrel includes ridges along an edge. The sensor assembly includes a recessed channel with reciprocal ridges for mating with the ridges of the lens barrel. The sensor assembly also includes a plurality of shim platforms structured, each structured to position a wedge shaped shim, the wedge shaped shim including a flat bottom to slide on the shim platform and raise or lower the lens barrel relative to the reciprocal ridges on which the lens barrel rests.

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