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AssigneeNevermind Capital LLC
InventorsDavid Cole, Alan McKay Moss, Michael P. Straub
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Customer wide angle lenses and methods and apparatus for using such lenses in individual cameras as well as pairs of cameras intended for stereoscopic image capture are described. The lenses are used in combination with sensors to capture different portions of an environment at different resolutions. In some embodiments ground is capture at a lower resolution than sky which is captured at a lower resolution than a horizontal area of interest. Various asymmetries in lenses and/or lens and sensor placement are described which are particularly well suited for stereoscopic camera pairs where the proximity of one camera to the adjacent camera may interfere with the field of view of the cameras.
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An image capture system, comprising:
The image capture system of claim 2, wherein the fish eye lens is asymmetric in the vertical direction and symmetric in the horizontal direction.
The image capture system of claim 6, wherein the fish eye lens further comprises a third portion, wherein the third portion of the fish eye lens is configured to direct light from a third portion of the environment to a third set of pixels, and wherein the third set of pixels comprises a third number of pixels per unit area for the third portion of the environment.
The image capture system of claim 7, wherein the third number of pixels per unit area for the third portion of the environment is less than the first number of pixels per unit area for the first portion of the environment and the second number of pixels per unit area for the second portion of the environment.
The image capture system of claim 9, wherein the one or more distortions comprise at least one of a luminance distortion and a chrominance distortion.
An image capture system, comprising:
The image capture system of claim 11, wherein the first number of pixels per unit area for the first portion of the environment is less than the second number of pixels per unit area for the second portion of the environment, and wherein the third number of pixels per unit area for the first portion of the environment is less than the fourth number of pixels per unit area for the second portion of the environment.
The image capture system of claim 15, wherein the first sensor is offset with respect to a center of the first fish eye lens such that a portion of light passing through the first fish eye lens is not collected by the first sensor.
The image capture system of claim 16, wherein the portion of light passing through the first fish eye lens that is not collected by the first sensor comprises light corresponding to the portion of the second fish eye lens that obscures the portion of the field of view of the first fish eye lens.
The image capture system of claim 18, wherein the offset of the second sensor is substantially equal and opposite the offset of the first sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.