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US 2008/0174678 A1Published application
Digital imaging system
AssigneeSolomon Research LLC
InventorNeal Solomon
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Abstract
A system is disclosed for the automated correction of optical and digital aberrations in a digital imaging system. The system includes several main parts, including (a) digital filters, (b) hardware modifications, (c) digital system corrections, (d) digital system dynamics and (e) network aspects. The system solves numerous problems in still and video photography that are presented in the digital imaging environment.
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A digital imaging system comprising:
- A digital camera mechanism, an optical lens mechanism, a digital sensor, a microprocessor, an application specific integrated circuit, a digital signal processor, system software, a database management system and a memory storage sub-system;
- wherein the optical lens mechanism is a fixed focal length;
- wherein the aberrations from the optical lens mechanism are corrected by applying digital filtration by using the application specific integrated circuit and digital signal processor;
- wherein a microprocessor is used to provide digital and optical data to the digital signal processor;
- wherein the system software is organized to identify specific optical aberrations and to access the database to identify specific corrections to the aberrations;
- wherein the system software forwards the data file from the digital sensor to the digital signal processor;
- wherein the digital signal processor selects a specific procedure to optimize the image and corrects the aberrations and;
- wherein the modified digital file consisting of the digital data optimized from the aberrations that are corrected from the original optical image is stored in memory.
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A digital imaging system comprising:
- A digital camera mechanism, an optical lens mechanism, a digital sensor, a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, system software, a database management system and a memory storage sub-system;
- wherein the optical lens mechanism is a fixed focal length;
- wherein image depth-of-field is optimized by forwarding the digital file from the digital sensor to the microprocessor;
- wherein system software accesses a database to determine the optimal aperture by comparing the distance data to similar images in the database;
- wherein a microprocessor is used to provide digital image data to the digital signal processor;
- wherein the digital signal processor optimizes the digital file aperture setting by comparing it to the database data;
- wherein the microprocessor adjusts the camera's aperture setting;
- wherein the digital sensor captures the image and the application specific integrated circuit forwards the image data file to the digital signal processor to make modifications to the digital file and;
- wherein the digital file is stored in memory.
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A digital imaging system comprising:
- A digital camera mechanism, an optical lens mechanism, a digital sensor, a microprocessor, a nano-grid mechanism, a digital signal processor, system software and a memory storage sub-system;
- wherein the nano-grid mechanism is between the optical lens mechanism and the digital sensor;
- wherein the nano-grid mechanism is comprised of an array of nano-filaments;
- wherein the nano-grid mechanism receives an electrical signal from the microprocessor and modifies its filament structure by modulating the filaments;
- wherein the nano-grid mechanism performs a function to provide filtration to the image before the digital sensor captures the image;
- wherein the image is captured by the digital sensor and the digital image file forwarded to the digital signal processor and;
- wherein the digital file is stored in memory.
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