Generating Images With Different Fields Of View
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorRalph W. Anderson
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a camera and an image processor. The camera receives light reflected from a scene and generates image data from the light, where the image data represents the scene. The image processor receives the image data and generates a first image signal according to the image data. The first image signal is operable to yield a first image representing a first field of view of the scene, The image processor generates a second image signal according to the image data. The second image signal is operable to yield a second field of view of the scene that is different from the first field of view.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a camera configured to:
- receive light reflected from a scene;
- and
- generate image data from the light, the image data representing the scene;
- and
- an image processor configured to:
- receive the image data;
- generate a first image signal according to the image data, the first image signal operable to yield a first image representing a first field of view of the scene;
- and
- generate a second image signal according to the image data, the second image signal operable to yield a second field of view of the scene, the second field of view different from the first field of view.
A method comprising;
- receiving, at a camera, light reflected from a scene;
- generating image data from the light, the image data representing the scene;
- generating, by an image processor, a first image signal according to the image data, the first image signal operable to yield a first image representing a first field of view of the scene;
- and
- generating a second image signal according to the image data, the second image signal operable to yield a second field of view of the scene, the second field of view different from the first field of view.
An apparatus comprising:
- a camera configured to:
- receive light reflected from a scene;
- and
- generate image data from the light, the image data representing the scene;
- an image processor configured to:
- receive the image data;
- generate a first image signal according to the image data by selecting a set of pixels from the image data, the first image signal operable to yield a first image representing a first field of view of the scene;
- receive an instruction to generate a second image signal, the instruction generated in response to a user selecting a portion of the first image;
- and
- generate the second image signal according to the image data by selecting a subset of the set of pixels, the second image signal operable to yield a second field of view of the scene, the second field of view different from the first field of view, the second image signal generated by:
- calculating a field of view contributed by each pixel of the first image;
- and
- calculating a number of pixels for the second image from the field of view contributed by each pixel of the first image;
- a display configured to display the first image and the second image;
- and
- a gimbal system configured to stabilize the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.