Multi-aperture zoom digital cameras and methods of using same
AssigneeCorephotonics Ltd.
InventorsOded Gigushinski, Nadav Geva, Guy Lifshitz
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Abstract
Multi-aperture zoom digital cameras comprising first and second scanning cameras having respective first and second native fields of view (FOV) and operative to scan a scene in respective substantially parallel first and second planes over solid angles larger than the respective native FOV, wherein the first and second cameras have respective centers that lie on an axis that is perpendicular to the first and second planes and are separated by a distance B from each other, and a camera controller operatively coupled to the first and second scanning cameras and configured to control the scanning of each camera.
Claims16
A system, comprising:
- a) a first scanning camera operative to provide first image data of an object or scene and having a first native field of view FOV1, the first scanning camera operative to change the location of FOV1 on the object or in the scene so as to scan in a first plane over a solid angle larger than the native FOV1;
- b) a second scanning camera operative to provide second image data of the object or scene and having a second native field of view FOV2, the second scanning camera operative to change the location of FOV2 on the object or in the scene so as to scan in a second plane over a solid angle larger than the native FOV2, wherein the first plane and the second plane are substantially parallel, wherein the first and second scanning cameras have respective centers that lie on a first axis that is perpendicular to the first and second planes and are separated by a distance B from each other;
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- c) a camera controller operatively coupled to the first and second scanning cameras and configured to control the scanning of each camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.