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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsNathan D. Cahill, Andrew C. Gallagher
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An electronic imaging system for capturing an image of a scene includes an optical system for producing an optical image of the scene, an imaging sensor having a surface in optical communication with the optical system, and a plurality of imaging elements distributed on the surface of the imaging sensor according to a distribution representable by a nonlinear function in which the relative density of the distributed imaging elements is greater toward the center of the sensor. Such a distribution provides physical coordinates for the imaging elements corresponding to a projection of the scene onto a non-planar surface, thereby compensating for perspective distortion of the scene onto the non-planar surface and alleviating the need to perform geometric warping of the images after they have been captured.
An electronic imaging system for capturing an image of a scene, said imaging system comprising:
An electronic image sensor for use in an electronic imaging system for capturing an optical image of a scene;
In an electronic imaging system including an image sensor for converting an optical image into an output signal, the improvement wherein the image sensor comprises a plurality of imaging elements distributed on a surface of the sensor for converting the optical image into a corresponding output signal, said imaging elements located on the surface according to a distribution representable by a nonlinear function in which the relative density of the distributed imaging elements is greater toward the center of the sensor, thereby compensating for perspective distortion of the scene onto a non-planar surface.
A method of generating a composite digital image from at least two source digital images, said method comprising:
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