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US 12,707,137 B2Granted
Multiplexed photon emitter and camera configuration for an image acquisition device
OwnerYigal Katzir, Ilia Lutsker +1inventors
InventorsYigal Katzir, Ilia Lutsker, Elie Meimoun
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Abstract
An image acquisition device including a first plurality of cameras arranged in a mutually spaced configuration, each having a field of view, each field of view lying in a plane and a second plurality of photon emitters arranged in a multiplicity of generally circumferential arrangements about each camera of the first plurality of cameras, at least one photon emitter within the generally circumferential arrangement directing light to a field of view of one of the first plurality of cameras that is not the closest field of view thereto.
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An image acquisition device comprising:
- a first plurality of cameras arranged in a mutually spaced configuration, each of said cameras having a field of view, each of said fields of view lying in a plane;
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- an illumination platform having an upper surface and a lower surface, said upper surface being proximal to said first plurality of cameras, said lower surface being distal from said first plurality of cameras, wherein a multiplicity of apertures is formed in said illumination platform, each of said apertures allowing viewing therethrough of said field of view by one of said cameras,
- a second plurality of photon emitters mounted on said lower surface arranged in a multiplicity of arrangements about each of the apertures, wherein each of said arrangements of photon emitters circumferentially surrounds each of said apertures,
- at least one of said photon emitters within said arrangements proximate a first of said apertures directing light to one of said fields of view for one of said first plurality of cameras that uses a second one of said apertures farther from said at least one of said photon emitters than said first of said apertures.
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