Array camera shutter
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorMats Wernersson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a shutter blade arrangement (134) for an array camera (100) comprising an array (130) of lenses (131). The shutter blade arrangement (134) comprises: at least one shutter blade (200), an array of openings (201) on said shutter blade (200), and an actuator (160) to control the at least one shutter blade (200), and wherein the at least one shutter blade (200) and said array of lenses (131) are displaceable relative each other.
Claims14
A shutter blade arrangement for use in an array camera having an array of lenses, the shutter blade arrangement comprises:
- at least two shutter blades,
- an array of openings on said shutter blades, and
- an actuator to control the at least two shutter blades,
- wherein the at least two shutter blades are displaceable relative each other and relative said array of camera lenses,
- wherein each of the openings of one pair of overlapping openings of the at least two shutter blades have a geometrical shape being rectangular, rhomb, or triangular, and
- wherein the shutter blade arrangement comprises at least one filter holder frame configured with at least one opening comprising a filter configured to cover at least one of the camera lenses of the array of camera lenses.
An array camera comprising:
- a shutter blade arrangement comprising at least one shutter blade having an array of openings,
- an array of lenses,
- an array of photo sensing means configured to generate data signals corresponding to received image signals,
- an infrared blocking filter statically arranged in front of a sub-portion of the lenses in the array of lenses,
- an actuator unit to control the shutter blade arrangement,
- wherein the shutter blade arrangement further comprises at least one filter holder frame configured with at least one opening comprising an infrared blocking filter configured to cover at least one of the lenses in said array of lenses not being part of the sub-portion of lenses, and
- wherein the at least one shutter blade, the at least one filter holder frame and said array of lenses are displaceable relative each other by means of the actuator unit.
An array camera comprising:
- a shutter blade arrangement comprising at least two shutter blades,
- an array of lenses,
- an array of photo sensing means configured to generate data signals corresponding to received image signals,
- an array of openings on said shutter blades,
- an actuator unit to control the at least two shutter blades,
- wherein the at least two shutter blades are displaceable relative each other and relative said array of lenses,
- wherein each of the openings of one pair of overlapping openings of the at least two shutter blades have a geometrical shape being rectangular, rhomb, or triangular, and
- wherein the shutter blade arrangement comprises at least one filter holder frame configured with at least one opening comprising a filter configured to cover at least one of the camera lenses of the array of camera lenses.
A shutter blade arrangement for use in an array camera having an array of lenses, the shutter blade arrangement comprises:
- at least two shutter blades,
- an array of openings on said shutter blades, and
- an actuator to control the at least two shutter blades,
- wherein the at least two shutter blades are displaceable relative each other and relative said array of camera lenses,
- wherein the shutter blade arrangement comprises at least one filter holder frame
- configured with at least one opening comprising a filter configured to cover at least one of the camera lenses of the array of camera lenses,
- wherein each of the openings of one pair of overlapping openings of the at least two shutter blades have a geometrical shape being rectangular, rhomb, or triangular.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.