DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VISUAL IMAGING ARRAYS

• US 20160142612A1
• Filed: 05/15/2015
• Published: 05/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund II, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Brav, Ehren, Hannigan, Russell, Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Johanson, 3ric, Kare, Jordin T., Pan, Tony S., Rutschman, Phillip, Tegreene, Clarence T., Whitmer, Charles, Wood, Lowell L. Jr., Wood, Victoria Y.H.
• Granted Patent: US 10,027,873 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof

Abstract

A method substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A device substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.

Claims

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5. A computationally-implemented method, comprising:

accepting input of a request for particular image data of a scene;

transmitting the request for the particular image data of the scene to a remote server;

combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with one or more further requests for image data into a combined request for image data;

transmitting the combined request for image data to an image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors;

capturing the scene through use of the image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors;

transferring captured image data from the captured scene that corresponds to the combined request for image data;

de-emphasizing image data from the scene that is not part of the transferred captured image data that corresponds to the combined request for image data;

extracting the particular image data from the transferred captured image data; and

sending the extracted particular image data to a device configured to present the extracted particular image data.

6. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said accepting input of a request for particular image data of a scene comprises:

accepting input of a request for particular image data of a scene from a client/user operating a client device configured to display images.

7. The computationally-implemented method of claim 6, wherein said accepting input of a request for particular image data of a scene from a client/user operating a client device configured to display images comprises:

accepting input of a request for an image of a lion drinking water at a desert oasis scene from a client/user that is operating the client device that is a tablet configured to display video from the desert oasis.

8. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said transmitting the request for the particular image data of the scene to a remote server comprises:

transmitting the request for the particular image data of the scene to the remote server that is remote from the image sensor array and that is configured to communicate with the image sensor array and to manage requests for image data from the image sensor array.

9. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with one or more further requests for image data into a combined request for image data comprises:

combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with a further request for image data that is received from a different requestor and that includes a request for different image data than the particular image data.

10. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with a further request for image data that is received from a different requestor and that includes a request for different image data than the particular image data comprises:

combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with the further request for image data; and

removing one or more redundant portions of the request for the further image data that request image data that has already been requested in the request for the particular image data.

11. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said transmitting the combined request for image data to an image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors comprises:

transmitting the combined request for image data to the image sensor array that includes a grid of image sensors aligned in rows and columns.

12. The computationally-implemented method of claim 5, wherein said transmitting the combined request for image data to an image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors comprises:

transmitting the combined request for image data to the image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors mounted on a moving platform.

13. A device, comprising:

circuitry for accepting input of a request for particular image data of a scene;

circuitry for transmitting the request for the particular image data of the scene to a remote server;

circuitry for combining, at the remote server, the request for the particular image data with one or more further requests for image data into a combined request for image data;

circuitry for transmitting the combined request for image data to an image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors;

circuitry for capturing the scene through use of the image sensor array that includes one or more image sensors;

circuitry for transferring captured image data from the captured scene that corresponds to the combined request for image data;

circuitry for de-emphasizing image data from the scene that is not part of the transferred captured image data that corresponds to the combined request for image data;

circuitry for extracting the particular image data from the transferred captured image data; and

circuitry for sending the extracted particular image data to a device configured to present the extracted particular image data.