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US 8,134,589 B2Granted
Zoom by multiple image capture
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJohn N. Border, Joseph R. Bietry
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Abstract
An image sensor assembly includes a fixed focal length optical lens; a mirror that reflects light from the scene to an optical lens and moves into a plurality of positions; and an image sensor that receives the light after it passes through the optical lens and captures a plurality of images that represents each image captured from each position of the mirror; wherein at least portions of the plurality of images are stitched together to form a composite image with a desired zoom factor.
Claims17
An image sensor assembly comprising:
- (a) a fixed focal length optical lens;
- (b) a mirror that reflects light from a scene to an optical lens and moves into a plurality of positions;
- and
- (c) an image sensor that receives the light after it passes through the optical lens and captures a plurality of images that represents each image captured from each position of the mirror;
- wherein at least portions of the plurality of images are stitched together to form a composite image with a desired zoom factor;
- wherein the image sensor pixels are binned in reverse correspondence to the zoom factor for one or more of the captured images;
- a binning factor of the binned images is proportional to the number of mirror positions which forms a degree of binning, and exposure time for each individual image is reduced to match the degree of binning for the image.
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An image capture device comprising:
- an image sensor assembly comprising:
- (a) a fixed focal length optical lens;
- (b) a mirror that reflects light from a scene to an optical lens and moves into a plurality of positions;
- and
- (c) an image sensor that receives the light after it passes through the optical lens and captures a plurality of images that represents each image captured from each position of the mirror;
- wherein at least portions of the plurality of images are stitched together to form a composite image with a desired zoom factor;
- wherein the image sensor pixels are binned in reverse correspondence to the zoom factor for one or more of the captured images;
- a binning factor of the binned images is proportional to the number of mirror positions which forms a degree of binning, and exposure time for each individual image is reduced to match the degree of binning for the image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.