Abstract:
A camera may have two or more image sensors, including a first image sensor and a second image sensor. The camera may have a main lens that directs incoming light along an optical path, and microlens array positioned within the optical path. The camera may also have two or more fiber optic bundles, including first and second fiber optic bundles with first and second leading ends, respectively. A first trailing end of the first fiber optic bundle may be positioned proximate the first image sensor; a second trailing end of the second fiber optic bundle may be positioned proximate the second image sensor, displaced from the first trailing end by a gap. The leading ends may be positioned adjacent to each other within the optical path such that image data captured by the image sensors can be combined to define a single light-field image substantially unaffected by the gap.
Abstract:
An optical system for panoramic stereoscopic imaging can include an outer reflector and an inner reflector, which can both be configured to reflect light to a camera. The outer reflector can include striations or other reflection elements to turn the light that is reflected to the camera such that first and second light rays that are parallel and offset from each other (e.g., suitable for stereoscopic 3D viewing) can be reflected by the respective outer and inner reflectors to the camera. The outer reflector can be partially reflective and partially transmissive so that some light can pass through the outer reflector to be reflected by the inner reflector to the camera. The camera can capture a single image having a first portion that corresponds to a view generated by the inner reflector, and a second portion that corresponds to a stereoscopically offset view generated by the outer reflector.
Abstract:
An apparatus to acquire information about lightfield data includes: a beam splitter configured to split light, through a lens unit which is connected to the apparatus, from an object into a first light beam and a second light beam; an image sensor configured to detect the first light beam to form an image of the object; and a light-field sensor, including a lenslet array and a detecting unit to detect the second light beam through the lenslet array, configured to acquire information about the light-field data, the lenslet array including a plurality of lenslets, wherein a first position where the detecting unit is provided is conjugate to a second position of a pupil of the lens unit.
Abstract:
- un premier miroir latéral (113) permettant de visualiser une première image correspondant à un premier chemin optique, - au moins un moyen de filtrage chromatique (114, 117) pour ne laisser passer, sur au moins deux chemins optiques différents, des rayons lumineux de longueurs d'onde dans des bandes spectrales de transmission disjointes et - au moins un deuxième miroir latéral (19) placé sur un desdits chemins optiques, dans lequel au moins un desdits chemins optique passe par un miroir convexe (115). Dans des modes de réalisation, au moins un des miroirs est un miroir semi- transparent et/ou au moins un des miroirs est formé d'un prisme. Dans des modes de réalisation le dispositif comporte un adaptateur mécanique (12) pour être solidarisé avec une caméra, un appareil photo ou un caméscope.
Abstract:
This invention relates a three dimensional (3D) reflector system including a first pair (22) of inner reflectors and a second pair (21) of outer reflectors arranged around the first pair of inner reflectors such that, seen from cross view of said reflector system, the reflectors form a mirror image around a vertical axis (24) extending through the first pair of inner reflectors with the respective one of the second pair of outer reflectors being arranged distally away from the vertical axis compared with the respective one of the first pair of inner reflectors. The respective one of the second pair of outer reflectors reflect an incoming light to the inner reflectors which reflect the light onto an imaging device (11) such that one side of the inner and outer reflector pair acts as a left eye view and the other side of the inner and outer reflector pair acts as a right eye view. The second pair of outer reflectors are either both convex or concave.
Abstract:
Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a plurality of imaging elements having a plurality of PDs, where each of the plurality of PDs photoelectrically converts a light flux having passed through a different region of an exit pupil of an imaging optical system and output a left-eye image/right-eye image. The imaging apparatus generates a composite image based on the left-eye image and the right-eye image, calculates a positional shift amount of the left-eye image relative to a position of the composite image as a parallax amount, and stores information regarding the parallax amount as a parallax map. The imaging apparatus generates a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be reproduced by shifting an object included in the composite image to a position corresponding to the parallax amount indicated by the parallax map.