H04N 13/25
Using two or more image sensors with different characteristics other than in
Official title: using two or more image sensors with different characteristics other than in their location or field of view, e.g. having different resolutions or colour pickup characteristics; using image signals from one sensor to control the characteristics of another sensor
H04N13/25 (Using two or more image sensors with different characteristics other than in) appears on 695 US grants and 789 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 695
- Published applications
- 789
- Assignees
- 332
- Inventors
- 1,501
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Information processing with alignment of images captured by respective lenses15 Sep 2026US 12,739,497 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Digital viewfinder user interface for multiple cameras15 Sep 2026US 12,739,511 B2Apple Inc.
- Methods and associated devices and systems for enhanced 2D and 3D vision18 Aug 2026US 12,712,998 B2Applied Minds, LLC
- Endoscopic imaging systems for generating three dimensional images, and associated systems and methods2 Jun 2026US 12,647,548 B2Proprio, Inc.
- Time-of-flight camera system2 Jun 2026US 12,647,550 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Array camera for extracting 2d and 3d information of a scene20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245252 A1NIL Technology ApS
- Method and apparatus for an imaging device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197423 A1Optics Innovation LLC
- Spatial image processing with adjustable rectification of stereoscopic image pairs28 May 2026US 2026/0149797 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Mobile object, control device, and imaging method7 May 2026US 2026/0129174 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Dual-resolution 3d scanner and method of using16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104254 A13Shape A/S
Most cited
By later US patents
- Shutter speed control method and system397US 5,650,944 AFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Distance detection method and system using a stereoscopical imaging apparatus353US 5,535,144 AFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- Method for creating virtual reality278US 6,084,979 ACarnegie Mellon University · 2000
- Image capturing device, method of searching for occlusion region, and program222US 8,446,492 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Method and apparatus for enhancing regions of aligned images using flow estimation212US 6,269,175 B1Sarnoff Corporation · 2001