Systems and methods of creating a virtual window
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1. A system for imaging a scene, comprising:
- an optical head including a plurality of imaging sensors arranged in a plurality of rows, each row disposed substantially vertically of an adjacent row and having one or more imaging sensors, wherein;
a respective one of said imaging sensors in a first row has an optical axis lying substantially on a first plane and a respective one of said imaging sensors in a second row has an optical axis lying substantially on a second plane such that the first plane is substantially parallel to the second plane and the number of imaging sensors in the first row is different from the number of imaging sensors in the second row,an optical axis of a first imaging sensor in a selected row intersects an optical axis of a second imaging sensor in the selected row different from the first imaging sensor; and
a processor connected to the optical head and configured with circuitry for;
receiving imaging sensor data from each imaging sensor, andgenerating an image of a scene by assembling the received imaging sensor data.
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Abstract
The systems and methods described herein provide imaging systems with multiple imaging sensors arranged in an optical head that create a seamless panoramic view by reducing parallax distortion and adaptively adjusting exposure levels of the recorded images. In particular, an optical head is described with a stacked configuration of CCD imaging sensors in which charge is transferred from a sensor to a processor beginning with an array of photosensitive elements nearest another sensor.
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1. A system for imaging a scene, comprising:
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an optical head including a plurality of imaging sensors arranged in a plurality of rows, each row disposed substantially vertically of an adjacent row and having one or more imaging sensors, wherein; a respective one of said imaging sensors in a first row has an optical axis lying substantially on a first plane and a respective one of said imaging sensors in a second row has an optical axis lying substantially on a second plane such that the first plane is substantially parallel to the second plane and the number of imaging sensors in the first row is different from the number of imaging sensors in the second row, an optical axis of a first imaging sensor in a selected row intersects an optical axis of a second imaging sensor in the selected row different from the first imaging sensor; and a processor connected to the optical head and configured with circuitry for; receiving imaging sensor data from each imaging sensor, and generating an image of a scene by assembling the received imaging sensor data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for imaging a scene, comprising:
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an optical head including a plurality of imaging sensors, each imaging sensor disposed substantially vertically of another imaging sensor along a vertical axis and each oriented at a different offset angle about the vertical axis, wherein each imaging sensor has an optical axis that forms a non-zero tilt angle with respect to the vertical axis, and wherein each of the non-zero tilt angles is substantially identical; and a processor connected to the optical head configured with circuitry for receiving imaging sensor data from each imaging sensor, and assembling the received imaging sensor data into an image of a scene. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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