Camera with through-the-lens lighting
Assignee3DV Systems Ltd.
InventorsOri J. Braun, Giora Yahav
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Abstract
A camera with through-the-lens lighting, comprising: a light source that produces incoherent light; a photosensitive surface; focusing optics, having an optical axis, that forms an image of a scene, within a field of view, on the photosensitive surface, wherein the light is boresighted with the optical axis and directed toward the scene, illuminating substantially only the field of view of the camera.
Claims2
A method of imaging a scene on a photo-surface comprising a plurality of light sensitive pixels, the method comprising:
- determining an amount of light from the scene reaching each pixel of the plurality of pixels;
- and
- thereafter controlling an amount of light from the scene that is registered by the pixel responsive to the determined amount of light.
A method of imaging a scene on a photo-surface comprising a plurality of light sensitive pixels the method comprising:
- determining a distance from each pixel of the plurality of pixels of a region of the scene imaged on the pixel;
- and
- controlling an amount of light from the region that is registered by the pixel responsive to the distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.