Multi-module photography system
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorTai Yanazume
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Abstract
A photography system includes: camera modules, which output, for individual pixels, picture data in synchronization with pixel clocks and which are arranged so that the light receiving directions of light receiving devices match; a camera control apparatus, which supplies an operating clock to the camera modules with a phase difference of half a cycle, and which generates a phase difference of half a cycle in picture data output by the camera modules; an output synthesizing apparatus, which synthesizes, in a time division manner, picture data output by the camera modules; and an image processing apparatus, which employs information about a distance between the camera modules for the reconstruction of a single picture, using the picture data synthesized by the output synthesizing apparatus.
Claims7
A photography system, comprising:
- first and second camera modules, arranged so as to match light receiving directions for light receiving devices, and to output, for individual pixels, picture data obtained in synchronization with pixel clocks;
- a camera control apparatus, for supplying an operating clock to the first and the second camera modules, with a phase difference of up to half a cycle, and for generating a phase difference of half a cycle between picture data output by the first and the second camera modules;
- an output synthesizing apparatus, for synthesizing, in a time division manner, picture data output by the first and the second camera modules;
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- an image processing apparatus, for, based on information concerning a distance between the first and the second camera modules, employing the picture data obtained by the first and second camera modules, and synthesized by the output synthesizing apparatus, to reconstruct a single target picture.
A photography system comprising:
- N camera modules, or at least three, arranged so as to match light receiving directions for light receiving devices and for outputting, to individual pixels, obtained picture data in synchronization with pixel clocks;
- a camera control apparatus, for supplying an operating clock for the N camera modules with each phase difference in a 1/N cycle and for generating a phase difference, for a 1/N cycle, included in picture data output by the N camera modules;
- an output synthesizing apparatus, for synthesizing, in a time division manner, picture data output by the N camera modules;
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- an image processing apparatus, for, based on information concerning distances among the N camera modules, employing the picture data obtained by the N camera modules, and synthesized by the output synthesizing apparatus, to reconstruct a single target picture.
A photography system comprising:
- a camera module, including first and second optical input units, for synthesizing, in a time division manner, picture data respectively obtained by the first and second optical input units, and for outputting the picture data to individual pixels, in synchronization with pixel clocks;
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- an image processing apparatus, for re-synthesizing the two sets of picture data, which have been supplied to the respective optical input units to be synthesized in a time division manner,
- wherein the camera module includes:
- first and second optical device groups, to be operated independently in consonance with the first and second optical input units,
- wherein operating clocks having a phase difference of half a cycle with each other are supplied to the first and the second optical device groups, respectively, to obtain a phase difference of half a cycle between the picture data output by the first and the second optical device groups,
- wherein picture data output by the first and second optical device groups are synthesized in a time division manner for output as the output of a single camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.