Exposure timing manipulation in a multi-lens camera
AssigneeOpera Imaging B.V.
InventorsZiv Attar, Chen Aharon-Attar
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Abstract
The exposure of pixel lines in one or more image sensor regions is substantially synchronized. Each image sensor region is associated with a different lens in a multi-lens camera system. For a first pixel line in a first image sensor region and a second pixel line in a second image sensor region corresponding to the same portion of a field of view, the first pixel line and the second pixel line are sequentially or substantially simultaneously exposed. After exposing the first pixel line and the second pixel line, image information associated with the exposures is combined and output on the same readout line.
Claims13
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A multi-lens camera system, comprising:
- a plurality of lenses, the lenses configured to collect light from a field of view and direct the light onto an image sensor;
- an image sensor comprising a plurality of image sensor regions, each image sensor region associated with a different lens and comprising a plurality of pixel lines;
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- a image sensor controller configured to expose each image sensor region to light incident upon the image sensor region to capture an image representative of the field of view, the exposure comprising exposing, for each exposed pixel line in a first image sensor region, a corresponding pixel line in a second image sensor region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.