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US 2022/0026689 A1Published application
Anamorphic photography and squeeze ratios for digital imagers
AssigneePanavision International, L.P.
InventorsDaniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
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Abstract
A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A lens system for use with a digital camera, the lens system comprising:
- an anamorphic lens group configured to compress an image;
- and
- a corrective lens group configured to improve the quality of the compressed image.
A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor, digital camera comprising:
- a lens system including an anamorphic lens group and a corrective lens group in an axial axis of the anamorphic lens group;
- wherein the anamorphic lens group is configured to compress an image, and the corrective lens group is configured to improve the quality of the compressed image in a direction of compression as captured by the digital image sensor.
A method for improving the quality of an image as captured by digital camera comprising:
- compressing an image by use of an anamorphic lens group;
- and
- passing the compressed image to a corrective lens group configured to improve the quality of the image as captured by the digital camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.