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Spatio-temporal light field cameras

  • US 9,930,272 B2
  • Filed: 10/01/2015
  • Issued: 03/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • with a number of participants, each having a respective mobile device with an embedded digital camera to capture 2D image data that represents a one to one correspondence in light originating from a point in a viewed scene;

    each embedded digital camera having;

    a micro photo-detector array device to capture 2D image data and mounted in the digital camera to be temporally angularly articulated about two orthogonal axes parallel to a plane of a light detection surface of the micro photo-detector array device and at least through maximum articulation angles with a periodicity selected to enable temporal coverage of the maximum articulation angles within an image frame capture duration;

    augmenting the 2D image data of the viewed scene captured by each participant'"'"'s embedded digital camera with location, orientation of the mobile device as augmented with instantaneous values of the articulation angles at the time of capture, and time of capture of the respective 2D image data of the viewed scene;

    transforming the augmented 2D image data of the viewed scene captured by each participant'"'"'s embedded digital camera to computationally fuse the augmented 2D image data into a single light field data set that represents a collective light field captured by all participants'"'"' embedded digital cameras that captured a partial 2D perspective of the viewed scene.

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