Camera system for three dimensional images and video
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1. A camera system including:
- n image capture devices having;
respective n lenses arranged such that optical paths of each of said n lenses are substantially parallel to each other and each of said n lenses are located along a substantially perpendicular axis to said optical paths;
a respective n storage arrays, said n storage arrays either being integrated within said n image capture devices or being connected thereto for receiving image output information therefrom, wherein said n storage arrays have output connections arranged for retrieval of segments of a plurality of images captured by said n image capture devices;
an array of image sensor elements for each of said n image capture devices comprising or connected to a dedicated storage array for receipt of information from said array of image sensor elements;
said output connections being in an Interleaved arrangement such that the segments of the plurality of images are interleaved between each other to produce an interleaved stereoscopic image, and to access segments of each of the dedicated storage arrays interleaved between segments of each of the other arrays; and
wherein each said dedicated storage array has P rows and Q columns, a first set of P address lines being connected to the P rows and a second set of Q/n address lines and corresponding Q/n output data lines being connected to an equally spaced selection of Q/n of the Q columns, wherein said output data lines from each of said n image capture devices are interleaved to produce an interleaved image of P rows and Q columns.
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A camera system including a plurality of image capture devices and supporting output of data from data storage arrays of each image capture device in a segment-by-segment manner, with output lines arranged in an interleaved manner so that interleaving is automatically achieved without complex image processing. The interleaved image or video output of such a camera system will appear as a three dimensional image when viewed through a screen of lenticular lenses.
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1. A camera system including:
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n image capture devices having;
respective n lenses arranged such that optical paths of each of said n lenses are substantially parallel to each other and each of said n lenses are located along a substantially perpendicular axis to said optical paths;
a respective n storage arrays, said n storage arrays either being integrated within said n image capture devices or being connected thereto for receiving image output information therefrom, wherein said n storage arrays have output connections arranged for retrieval of segments of a plurality of images captured by said n image capture devices;
an array of image sensor elements for each of said n image capture devices comprising or connected to a dedicated storage array for receipt of information from said array of image sensor elements;
said output connections being in an Interleaved arrangement such that the segments of the plurality of images are interleaved between each other to produce an interleaved stereoscopic image, and to access segments of each of the dedicated storage arrays interleaved between segments of each of the other arrays; and
wherein each said dedicated storage array has P rows and Q columns, a first set of P address lines being connected to the P rows and a second set of Q/n address lines and corresponding Q/n output data lines being connected to an equally spaced selection of Q/n of the Q columns, wherein said output data lines from each of said n image capture devices are interleaved to produce an interleaved image of P rows and Q columns. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An image capture device having a respective lens, for use in a camera system including a plurality n of such capture devices with the respective plurality of lenses being in an arrangement such that the optical paths of the lenses are substantially parallel to each other and the plurality of lenses are located along a substantially perpendicular axis to the optical paths and with their outputs connected in an interleaved manner to generate interleaved stereoscopic output images having P rows and Q columns of pixels, the device including an array of image sensors also having P rows and Q/n columns and a storage array having P rows and Q/n columns connected to receive information from the array of image sensors.
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