G02B 3/0062
Stacked lens arrays, i.e. refractive surfaces arranged in at least two planes
Official title: {Stacked lens arrays, i.e. refractive surfaces arranged in at least two planes, without structurally separate optical elements in-between}
G02B3/0062 (Stacked lens arrays, i.e. refractive surfaces arranged in at least two planes) appears on 1,143 US grants and 1,204 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for multiple camera devices and method of operating same466US 7,199,348 B2Newport Imaging Corporation · 2007
- Capturing and processing of images using monolithic camera array with heterogeneous imagers431US 8,514,491 B2Pelican Imaging Corporation · 2013
- Lenslet array systems and methods338US 5,973,844 AProxemics · 1999
- Lenslet array systems and methods295US 6,124,974 AProxemics · 2000
- Enhanced resolution for image generation265US 7,417,617 B2Dimension Technologies, Inc. · 2008