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US 2019/0098228 A1Published application
Superimposing an image on an image of an object being photographed
OwnerChad-Affonso Wathingtoninventor
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Abstract
A camera may include a display that projects a picture of the user's choice onto an image sensor array (or film), which is superimposed on the image of an object from a photograph that the lens system projects on the same image sensor array. Optionally, a pellicle mirror may be used to combine the two images. Optionally, the camera includes a transmitter for receiving pictures from a remote device, which are superimposed on the image of the object being photographed.
Claims21
A system comprising:
- an image sensor;
- a lens array located in the system so as to project light from an object onto the image sensor;
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- an electro-optic display including at least an electro-optic panel, the electro-optic panel is located in the system relative to the lens array and the image sensor, so that, when activated, a image of choice is projected onto the image sensor superimposed with the light of the object, forming light that carries a combination of image information about the object and image information about the image of choice, wherein the light that carries the combination is formed at a location prior to reaching the image sensor, and after the location where the combination is formed, the light that carries the combination travels in a direction of travel towards the image sensor, where the direction of travel toward the image sensor is also a direction of travel toward a location for creating an image for a view finder that is a part of a camera having the image sensor;
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- wherein, as a result of how the electrooptic panel is located in the system relative to the lens array and the image sensor, during operation of the system,
- (5) light from the electrooptic panel carrying image information about the image of choice is projected to follow a path along an optic axis headed towards the image sensor in which the optic axis passes through each point along the path only once,
- (6) the path headed towards the image sensor in which the optic axis passes through each point along the optic axis only once starts at the electrooptic panel, and
- (7) the path headed towards the image sensor in which the optic axis passes through each point along the optic axis only once, does not end until at least a location that is after a location where the combination is formed;
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- (8) the electro-optic panel is located in the system relative to the lens array and the image sensor, such that light carrying the combination that is sent to a location sent for creating an image for a view finder is only light that travels from the location that the combination was formed along the path.
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A system comprising:
- an image sensor;
- a lens array located in the system so as to project light from an object onto the image sensor;
- an electro-optic display, which is located in the system, so that, when activated, a image of choice is projected onto the image sensor superimposed with the light of the object;
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- a beam combiner that combines the light from the object and light from the electro-optic display, where the light from the electro-optic display contains information for forming an image of the image of choice, so that an image of the object and the image of choice are superimposed on one another on the image sensor array with the image of the object and the image of the image of choice being equally in focus and equally out of focus at the image sensor.
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A method comprising:
- projecting an image of an object via a camera lens array through a beam combiner within the camera;
- simultaneously projecting a image of choice through a lens array in a light beam perpendicular to a light beam from the object;
- at a location after the light beam from the object passes through the lens array, combining, by the beam combiner within the camera, a light beam from the image of choice and the light beam from the object;
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- projecting the light beam from the image of choice and the light beam from the object-onto an image sensor array to display a superimposed image on a view finder of the camera, by the projecting of the image of choice projects the light into the beam combiner, such that light from the image of choice is passed through the beam combiner only once between leaving the lens array and arriving at the sensor array, where the superimposed image displayed on the view finder is derived from light projected onto the image sensor.
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A system, comprising:
- a lens mount;
- the lens mount being configured to be removably attach the system to a camera;
- a lens array located in the system so as to project light from an object onto the image sensor, creating an image of the object;
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- an electro-optic display including at least an electro-optic panel, which is located in the system, being configured for creating an image of a image of choice, the electrooptic panel being located so that light from the object travels through the electroptic panel, therein superimposing an image information about the picture of interest with image information about the object in a light beam;
- the lens array, electrooptic panel, and lens mount being arranged such that the light beam from the electrooptic panel having the image information about the picture of interest with image information about the object superimposed is projected through the lens mount in a light path, starting at the object and continuing through the lens mount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.