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Camera arrangements with back lighting detection and methods of using same

  • US 8,310,557 B1
  • Filed: 07/02/2007
  • Issued: 11/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A master camera array comprising:

  • a circuit board having front and rear surfaces, the circuit board defining a plurality of camera sites on said front surface, a control data input connection, a data output connection and a data bus extending along the circuit board to said camera sites;

    a plurality of camera units, each such camera unit incorporating an imaging chip defining a plurality of pixels and a connection engaged with one of said camera sites so that each camera unit is connected to said data bus at one of said camera sites;

    data output circuitry connected between said camera sites and said data output connection for merging pixel data provided by said plurality of camera units into a common data output stream; and

    at least one illumination data capture unit mounted to said circuit board, said at least one illumination data capture unit incorporating a photosensitive chip such that said photosensitive chip may provide illumination data impinging on said photosensitive chip to said circuit board.

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