Array camera for extracting 2d and 3d information of a scene
AssigneeNIL Technology ApS
InventorsNiklas Hansson, Ehsan Hashemi, Terry Merschat
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Abstract
An imaging device includes at least one sensor comprising a plurality of light sensitive regions, each region operable to capture a respective image of a scene to be imaged; a first imaging component and a second imaging component, wherein each of the first and the second imaging components are individually configured to capture images of the scene for extracting three-dimensional information of the scene, wherein the first imaging component has a first optical feature and the second imaging component has a second optical feature, wherein a difference between the first and the second optical feature is higher than a predetermined optical feature difference threshold.
Claims20
An imaging device comprising:
- a sensor comprising a first light sensitive region and a second light sensitive region plurality;
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- a first imaging component and a second imaging component, wherein the first and the second imaging components are configured to direct light to the first light sensitive region and the second light sensitive region, respectively, to capture respective first and second images of a scene for extracting three-dimensional information of the scene,
- wherein the first imaging component has a first value of an optical parameter and the second imaging component has a second value of the optical parameter,
- wherein the first value is different from the second value, and
- wherein a difference between the first value and the second value is configured to enable extraction of the three-dimensional information of the scene predetermined threshold.
A method performed by an image processor, the method comprising:
- obtaining a comparison measure indicating a difference between a first image and a second image of a scene,
- wherein the first image is captured by a first imaging component and the second image is captured by a second imaging component, wherein the first imaging component has a first value of an optical parameter and the second imaging component has a second value of the optical parameter,
- wherein a difference between the first value and the second value configured to cause the difference between the first image and the second image;
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- extracting three-dimensional information of the scene based on the comparison measure.
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