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US 8,619,179 B2Granted
Multi-modal image capture apparatus with a tunable spectral response
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorFrancisco Imai
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Abstract
An image capture apparatus includes an image sensor which has a tunable spectral response and which is tunable in accordance with a capture mask to capture multi-spectral image data. Light-field optics are arranged to project light-field information of a scene onto the image sensor.
Claims24
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- an image sensor which has a tunable spectral response and which is tunable in accordance with a capture mask to capture multi-spectral image data;
- light-field optics arranged to project light-field information of a scene onto the image sensor;
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- a user interface which accepts a user designation of a number of spectral components, wherein the capture mask is constructed in accordance with the user designation and is applied to the image sensor so as to tune the spectral response of the image sensor to the number of spectral components designated by the user.
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A method of image capture for an image capture apparatus, comprising:
- capturing multi-spectral image data with an image sensor of the image capture apparatus, wherein the image sensor has a tunable spectral response and is tunable in accordance with a capture mask;
- projecting light-field information of a scene onto the image sensor with light-field optics of the image capture apparatus;
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- providing a user interface which accepts a user designation of a number of spectral components, wherein the capture mask is constructed in accordance with the user designation and is applied to the image sensor so as to tune the spectral response of the image sensor to the number of spectral components designated by the user.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable process steps for performing a method of image capture for an image capture apparatus, the method comprising:
- capturing multi-spectral image data with an image sensor of the image capture apparatus, wherein the image sensor has a tunable spectral response and which is tunable in accordance with a capture mask;
- projecting light-field information of a scene with light-field optics of the image capture apparatus, wherein the light-field information is projected onto the image sensor;
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- providing a user interface which accepts a user designation of a number of spectral components, wherein the capture mask is constructed in accordance with the user designation and is applied to the image sensor so as to tune the spectral response of the image sensor to the number of spectral components designated by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.