Apparatus Method and System for Imaging

• US 20110080496A1
• Filed: 10/04/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jungo Connectivity Ltd. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Extreme Reality Ltd.
• Inventors: Givon, Dor
• Granted Patent: US 8,878,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: G03H 1/268 Holographic stereogram
• CPC Class Codes: G03H 2210/42 from real object, e.g. using 3D scanner
• CPC Class Codes: G03H 2210/441 Numerical processing applied to the object data other than numerical propagation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/204 using stereoscopic image cameras stereoscopic photography G03B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/218 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/257 Colour aspects

Abstract

There is provided in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention an optical assembly including a set of optical paths, wherein two or more optical paths receive an image from a common surface. The optical paths may direct received images onto a common image sensor generating a complex multidimensional data set, an image processing block may extrapolate each of the subset of optical paths printed on the image sensor and may generate a multidimensional data set based on the collected images.

Claims

1. An apparatus adapted to generate one or more images from image related data generated by an imaging sensor adapted to substantially concurrently receive optical image information from two or more optical paths, said apparatus comprising:

interface circuitry adapted receive the image related data generated by an imaging sensor; and

image data processing circuitry adapted to convert the received optical image information from two or more optical paths into a multidimensional image data set.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said processing circuitry is further adapted to render each of two or more separate images from the multidimensional image data set.