X-Y translational imaging device with housing supporting means for a camera body including image sensing means
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1. A camera having an angularly adjustable field of view while maintaining a lens and outer support housing stationary comprising:
- a lens mounted to said housing and having an axis and a focal length such that parallel light rays from object space entering said lens are focused on a plane in image space;
the rays from separated objects in object space defining angularly separate bundles so that spaced objects in the object space become angularly spaced bundles and spaced images in image space;
a camera body including image sensor means; and
means carried on said housing for supporting said camera body and sensor means in image space and for moving said camera body and sensor in X-Y translational movement about image space so that said translation movement of the sensor camera body are alone causes the sensor to shift its angular field of view in object space.
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An imaging device has a lens for focusing light and a sensor for imaging that light. The lens is selected such that the focus coverage area projected from the lens is much greater in area than the area of the sensor. The sensor is moved through the coverage area of the lens linearly along mutually perpendicular axes that are also perpendicular to the axis of the lens allowing the field of view of the lens to be systemically scanned by the sensor utilizing only linear translational motion of the sensor.
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1. A camera having an angularly adjustable field of view while maintaining a lens and outer support housing stationary comprising:
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a lens mounted to said housing and having an axis and a focal length such that parallel light rays from object space entering said lens are focused on a plane in image space; the rays from separated objects in object space defining angularly separate bundles so that spaced objects in the object space become angularly spaced bundles and spaced images in image space; a camera body including image sensor means; and means carried on said housing for supporting said camera body and sensor means in image space and for moving said camera body and sensor in X-Y translational movement about image space so that said translation movement of the sensor camera body are alone causes the sensor to shift its angular field of view in object space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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