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7616389 |
Optical system
The invention relates to an optical system adapted to take or project high-definition images with well corrected aberrations for the purpose of taking images from a 360° panoramic scene on a...
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7612946 |
Wide-angle lenses
The present invention provides new projection schemes for wide angle imaging lenses rotationally symmetric about optical axis wherein the field of view of lenses and the size of image sensors are...
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7593057 |
Multi-view integrated camera system with housing
A panoramic camera design that is lower cost, robust, stable and more user friendly than prior art designs. The camera design makes use of a unified molded structure of optical material to house a...
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7593042 |
Maintenance of panoramic camera orientation
Systems and methods for maintaining orientation of a non-cylindrical panorama is described wherein an initial magnetometer reading is obtained for a panoramic camera. If the panoramic camera is...
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7576925 |
System for increasing horizontal field of view of a camera
A terrestrial imaging device includes an objective lens which accepts light within an intrinsic angular field of view onto a focal plane and two pairs of plane mirrors. The first pair of plane...
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7570437 |
Omni-directional imaging and illumination assembly
In a first aspect, the present invention provides an omni-directional imaging assembly. In the preferred embodiment the assembly of the invention comprises a solid omni-directional lens comprising...
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7542218 |
Optical system
A curved surface image-conversion optical system is configured to take an image of a hemispherically curved object or project it as a curved surface image, which optical system includes a front...
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7538956 |
Panoramic imaging device
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a lens array having a center lens for receiving light entering in a front range of at most 60° in a capture angle and left and right side lenses formed on the...
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7518789 |
Broad band deep ultraviolet/vacuum ultraviolet catadioptric imaging system
A design for inspecting specimens, such as photomasks, for unwanted particles and features such as pattern defects is provided. The system provides no central obscuration, an external pupil for...
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7495694 |
Omni-directional camera with calibration and up look angle improvements
Improved camera calibration techniques, including an improved up look angle and an improved method for calibrating a virtual center of projection. By using a view camera technique for the up look...
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7460777 |
Covert wide-angle camera adapter
A reflective tube centered on a lens of a camera is used in covert wide-angle photography in which and at least one reflected annular image is rotated by 180° to register it with the open-hole...
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7429997 |
System and method for spherical stereoscopic photographing
The present invention provides a novel imaging system for obtaining full stereoscopic spherical images of the visual environment surrounding a viewer, 360 degree both horizontally and vertically....
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7420749 |
Optical element device for simulating the optical perspective of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, birds, and other creatures
Optical elements in an optical device simulate the optical perspective of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, birds and other creatures for a human viewer. The optical elements are one or more...
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7403343 |
Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system
The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full...
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7399095 |
Apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror
The present invention is directed to a mounting apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror in front of the focal point of a camera. The mounting apparatus comprises a conical optical stage...
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7362517 |
Rotationally asymmetric optical system
The invention relates to a rotationally asymmetric optical system which includes at least one reflecting surface rotationally symmetric about a center axis, is rotationally symmetric about the...
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7362516 |
Optical lens providing omni-directional coverage and illumination
The invention presents a wide-angle imaging assembly which comprises a main lens produced from an aspheric optical block. The aspheric optical block comprises a vertical axis of symmetry; a...
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7286295 |
Microoptical compound lens
An apposition microoptical compound lens comprises a plurality of lenslets arrayed around a segment of a hollow, three-dimensional optical shell. The lenslets collect light from an object and focus...
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7283312 |
Fisheye lens unit
To provide a technique to constitute a fisheye lens unit with a small number of lenses. A fisheye lens unit uses a predetermined projection method, wherein a variation for the predetermined...
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7268956 |
Solid catadioptric lens with two viewpoints
A dual viewpoint solid catadioptric lens has a first spherical refractive surface S 1 having a center C 1 located on an optical axis of the lens and having a radius r 1 , and a second spherical...
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7268805 |
image pick-up device
In order to prevent the upper part of a subject such as a multistoried building or the like from being photographed in a short form when a wide angle shot is carried out, image pick-up means 5 ...
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7253969 |
Spherical and nearly spherical view imaging assembly
The present invention describes several embodiments of electro-optical assemblies, which are capable of capturing full or nearly full spherical field of view. The present invention presents...
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7227705 |
Wide-angle optical system
A wide-angle optical system ( 2, 40 ) having an objective ( 4, 42 ) and a mirror system, including a curved mirror ( 6, 46 ) for projecting a wide-angle image through the objective ( 4, 42 ) onto a...
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7221505 |
Panoramic field of view acquiring and displaying system
A panoramic field of view acquiring system comprises three telescopes, which acquire three separate images, each typically covering a little over one third of the total required scene and a...
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7173776 |
Fisheye lens system
A fisheye lens system with a half angle-of-view of 90° includes a negative front lens group, a diaphragm, and a positive rear lens group. The negative front lens group includes at least three...
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7154551 |
Imaging device with solid optical member
An imaging device includes a convex mirror for reflecting first incident light representing an object, the convex mirror having a shape of solid of revolution; an imaging mechanism for taking a...
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7123777 |
System and method for panoramic imaging
The present invention provides a system for processing panoramic photographic images. The system includes a mirror for reflecting an image of a scene, a mounting assembly for mounting the mirror on...
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7116498 |
Projection optical system and image projection apparatus
A projection optical system and an image projection apparatus that are small in size and can achieve projection with a wide angle while a good image forming performance is assured includes a first...
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7046458 |
Fisheye lens and imaging device using it
A fisheye lens with a field angle of at least one hundred sixty degrees is formed of two lens groups, arranged in order from the object side, as follows: a first lens group having negative...
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7038846 |
Solid catadioptric lens with a single viewpoint
A solid catadioptric lens with a single viewpoint has a spherical refractive surface with a center C on an optical axis of the lens. An ellipsoidal reflective surface of the lens faces the...
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7019918 |
Panoramic imaging system
A panoramic lens includes an aspherical convex surface and an aspherical concave surface. The convex surface includes a transparent portion and an internally reflective portion, and the concave...
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6987623 |
Image size changeable fisheye lens system
The invention provides a fisheye lens system having an angle of view of 170 degrees or more capable of being used with a plurality of cameras having different image formats in size. The lens system...
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6975353 |
Immersive camera system
An immersive scanning camera provides for a high speed imager to capture a scene of interest on a pixel by pixel basis. Distance data is collected for each pixel. This distance data is...
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6963375 |
Image altering device for an image producing apparatus
A digital camera has a plurality of fields of view combined with a panning and/or tilting functionality. The camera comprises: a camera housing ( 6 ) with an optical input ( 5 ), such as a lens or...
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6937395 |
Panoramic viewing device
A panoramic viewing apparatus has an imaging system that is arranged in a housing provided with a rotary drive. The imaging system has a lens system by means of which the images of the objects are...
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6885509 |
Imaging arrangement which allows for capturing an image of a view at different resolutions
The invention provides a method of viewing an image. Light is projected from the image. The projected light is split into first and second bundles of light focusing over a first and a second focal...
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6865029 |
Imaging device and method for producing the same
An imaging device includes a convex mirror for reflecting incident light representing an object, the convex mirror having a shape of solid of revolution; an imaging mechanism for taking an image...
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6865028 |
Method for capturing a panoramic image by means of an image sensor rectangular in shape
A method for capturing a digital panoramic image, includes projecting a panorama onto an image sensor by means of a fish-eye objective lens having a constant field angle relative to its optical...
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6856472 |
Panoramic mirror and system for producing enhanced panoramic images
The present invention relates to providing enhanced panoramic images with an improved panoramic mirror. A panoramic mirror is provided with a controlled vertical field of view. The controlled...
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6856377 |
Relay image optical system, and illuminating optical device and exposure system provided with the optical system
This invention provides a relay imaging optical system which is composed of a small number of lenses and can be miniaturized and reduced in weight with maintaining required optical characteristics....
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6844990 |
Method for capturing and displaying a variable resolution digital panoramic image
A method for capturing a digital panoramic image includes projecting a panorama onto an image sensor by means of a panoramic objective lens. The panoramic objective lens has a distribution function...
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6809887 |
Apparatus and method for acquiring uniform-resolution panoramic images
A panoramic imaging system is constructed to acquire panoramic images of a very large field of view. The field of view ranges from being nearly hemispherical, to being omni directional with some...
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6793356 |
Omnidirectional vision sensor
An omnidirectional vision sensor includes: an optical system including a body-of-revolution mirror having a convex portion and having a symmetrical structure with respect to a revolution axis,...
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6782139 |
Correcting correlation errors in a compound image
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for creating a new compound image by correcting a correlation error in a compound image. According to one embodiment, information identifying a...
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6768598 |
Image pickup system
The image pickup device includes a plurality of plane mirrors arranged in the form of a polygonal pyramid, and a plurality of cameras disposed opposite the plane mirrors, respectively. The angle of...
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6754614 |
Linearized static panoramic optical mirror
An improved conical panoramic mirror element design is disclosed such that the panoramic vertical field of view is not fixed and the image covers at least 90% of the toroidal image pixels of an...
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6744569 |
Method and apparatus for omnidirectional three dimensional imaging
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6704148 |
Omnidirectional visual angle system and retainer for the system
A retainer is constructed of a retainer top section, a retainer body section and a retainer bottom section. Connecting portions of the sections are screwed by screws provided for the connecting...
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6700711 |
Panoramic viewing system with a composite field of view
Cameras are positioned so that at least a portion of the field of view of at least one camera is redirected by a reflective surface. Images from these cameras are merged to produce a composite...
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6646818 |
Panoramic imaging lens
A panoramic imaging lens having an annular light incident surface formed in a substantial convex lens form; a first reflective surface formed in an annular concave mirror form to reflect light...
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