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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8072693 | Optical system An optical system is adapted to form an image having a full 360° angle of view on an image plane. The optical system includes a front unit having at least two reflecting surfaces, each rotationally symmetric about a center axis, and a rear unit that is rotationally... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7974015 | Wide-angle compound-eye imaging device A center lens for collecting light in a center range and left/right lenses for collecting light in left/right ranges are supported in one plane to form center and left/right unit images. A microprocessor combines the unit images into a wide-angle image. The left/rig... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7817354 | Panoramic imaging system An optical imaging system and method for producing panoramic images exhibiting a substantial field of view. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800839 | Optical system The invention relates to an optical system which is adapted to form an image having a full 360° (panoramic)-direction angle of view on an image plane or project an image located on an image plane in a full 360° (panoramic)-direction angle of view, and which is of ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7782549 | Camera A digital camera includes a first lens group, a second group frame unit, a third lens group, a CCD unit, a lens barrel, and a chassis. The first lens group receives a light flux along a first optical axis. The second group frame unit receives and bends the light flu... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7616389 | Optical system The invention relates to an optical system adapted to take or project high-definition images with well corrected aberrations for the purpose of taking images from a 360° panoramic scene on a cylindrical, conical or other three-dimensional surface or project such a ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7576925 | System for increasing horizontal field of view of a camera A terrestrial imaging device includes an objective lens which accepts light within an intrinsic angular field of view onto a focal plane and two pairs of plane mirrors. The first pair of plane mirrors reflects a first light incoming ray sequentially to produce first... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570437 | Omni-directional imaging and illumination assembly In a first aspect, the present invention provides an omni-directional imaging assembly. In the preferred embodiment the assembly of the invention comprises a solid omni-directional lens comprising a vertical axis of symmetry; an upper surface, at least part of which... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7542218 | Optical system A curved surface image-conversion optical system is configured to take an image of a hemispherically curved object or project it as a curved surface image, which optical system includes a front unit formed of a transparent medium rotationally symmetric about a cente... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7463431 | Optical system The invention concerns an optical system which is adapted to take full-360° angle-of-view images from the surrounding scene or project images on the full-360° angles of view, and which has compact size, reduced flare light and high resolving power. The optical sys... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7429997 | System and method for spherical stereoscopic photographing The present invention provides a novel imaging system for obtaining full stereoscopic spherical images of the visual environment surrounding a viewer, 360 degree both horizontally and vertically. Displaying the images obtained by the present system, by means suitabl... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7420749 | Optical element device for simulating the optical perspective of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, birds, and other creatures Optical elements in an optical device simulate the optical perspective of animals, reptiles, fish, insects, birds and other creatures for a human viewer. The optical elements are one or more lenses, filters, diffraction gratings, mirrors, prisms, polarizers or apert... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403343 | Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size an... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399095 | Apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror The present invention is directed to a mounting apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror in front of the focal point of a camera. The mounting apparatus comprises a conical optical stage configured to contact the mirror at an end point along the longitudinal axis. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7362516 | Optical lens providing omni-directional coverage and illumination The invention presents a wide-angle imaging assembly which comprises a main lens produced from an aspheric optical block. The aspheric optical block comprises a vertical axis of symmetry; a transparent upper surface, at least part of which is capable of reflecting r... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362517 | Rotationally asymmetric optical system The invention relates to a rotationally asymmetric optical system which includes at least one reflecting surface rotationally symmetric about a center axis, is rotationally symmetric about the center axis, and is adapted to form a full 360°-direction image on an im... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353188 | Product selling system and method for operating the same A product selling system is provided which allows clients with networks accessible to the Internet to contact a service provider network for purchases. The service provider network includes a database with three dimensional (3D) image data for a variety of its produ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339540 | Sparse and virtual array processing for rolling axle array system A radar signal processing system comprises a processor that determines a respective position of each of a plurality of radiating elements included in a radar array. Each radiating element has a respectively different motion vector from every other one of the plurali... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7286295 | Microoptical compound lens An apposition microoptical compound lens comprises a plurality of lenslets arrayed around a segment of a hollow, three-dimensional optical shell. The lenslets collect light from an object and focus the light rays onto the concentric, curved front surface of a cohere... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283312 | Fisheye lens unit To provide a technique to constitute a fisheye lens unit with a small number of lenses. A fisheye lens unit uses a predetermined projection method, wherein a variation for the predetermined projection method is not less than the variation for an equidistant projecti... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277118 | Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268956 | Solid catadioptric lens with two viewpoints A dual viewpoint solid catadioptric lens has a first spherical refractive surface S1 having a center C1 located on an optical axis of the lens and having a radius r1, and a second spherical refractive surface S2 having a center C2 ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268805 | image pick-up device In order to prevent the upper part of a subject such as a multistoried building or the like from being photographed in a short form when a wide angle shot is carried out, image pick-up means 5 are provided at intervals of 90 degrees on a base 4. The im... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260257 | System and method for whiteboard and audio capture A system that captures both whiteboard content and audio signals of a meeting using a digital camera and a microphone. The system can be retrofit to any existing whiteboard. It computes the time stamps of pen strokes on the whiteboard by analyzing the sequence of ca... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253970 | Reflective optical system A lens arrangement is presented. The lens arrangement comprises a first element having a concave reflective surface and defining an optical axis of the lens arrangement, and a second substantially flat and at least partially reflective element spaced-apart from the ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253969 | Spherical and nearly spherical view imaging assembly The present invention describes several embodiments of electro-optical assemblies, which are capable of capturing full or nearly full spherical field of view. The present invention presents improvements of the prior art methods by unifying several methods to achieve... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7244229 | Capsule endoscope A capsule endoscope is disclosed having an illumination means, an imaging system that includes an objective optical system, and a transparent cover. The invention is characterized by one of: (1) the transparent cover has a larger radius of curvature in a central reg... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245443 | Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size an... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7229176 | Device for displaying imagery three-dimensionally Device for displaying imagery three-dimensionally, which comprises a first image reproduction element having an image reproduction surface and a second image reproduction element having an image indication surface of reflective property. Those image reproduction and... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227705 | Wide-angle optical system A wide-angle optical system (2, 40) having an objective (4, 42) and a mirror system, including a curved mirror (6, 46) for projecting a wide-angle image through the objective (4, 42) onto a detector (10, 44). At least one mirror ( | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222995 | Unitary reflector and lens combination for a light emitting device A unitary lens and light emitting device combination is provided that produces a highly uniform beam of light, corrected for distortions and gaps in illumination, throughout a full output beam width. The unitary lens incorporates all of the necessary optical surface... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224326 | Virtual reality system A virtual reality (VR) system includes an image playback system that sends images to an image viewing device, such as a pair of display glasses. Each image has a 360-degree field of view. An user views a portion of the images. The portion of the image viewed is dete... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221505 | Panoramic field of view acquiring and displaying system A panoramic field of view acquiring system comprises three telescopes, which acquire three separate images, each typically covering a little over one third of the total required scene and a multiplexer, which is used to transmit the three images, one at a time, to a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215364 | Digital imaging system using overlapping images to formulate a seamless composite image and implemented using either a digital imaging sensor array An imaging system for obtaining a wide field of view comprises a plurality of imaging devices each having a defined field of view and each of the imaging devices having a mechanism for capturing an image at a selected time instant. The imaging devices are positioned... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212630 | Method and apparatus for encryption using partial information A method and apparatus of encrypting optical images using binarization or phase only information is presented with a number of ways to secure the image also being provided. An image to be encrypted is first multiplied by a random phase function. The Fourier transfor... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207029 | Calculating etch proximity-correction using image-precision techniques One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that calculates etch proximity-correction during an OPC (Optical Proximity Correction) process. During operation, the system receives a layout for an integrated circuit. Next, the system selects a target poin... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199764 | Maintenance platform for a rolling radar array A maintenance platform for use in a rolling radar array system has a base capable of accommodating at least one person. The base is movably coupled to a support frame, along which the base can move along the longitudinal axis of the support frame rails. The height o... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190535 | Non-planar prism A system and method are provided for scanning all or part of a hand print for one or more hands positioned on a non-planar portion of a prism. The non-planar portion can be symmetrical about an axis of symmetry of the prism. Typically, a palm pocket, writer's palm, ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190393 | Camera with improved illuminator An illumination and imaging system is provided with a co-axial illuminator that does not include a beamsplitter. The co-axial illuminator achieves efficiencies substantially in excess of those achieved with a beamsplitter. In one aspect, an optical stop is used to r... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183989 | Transportable rolling radar platform and system A transportable platform for a rolling radar array system has a base whereupon a track for an array wheel is provided. A segment of the track can be folded for transportation and deployed when the rolling radar array system is to be in an operational mode. The trans... | 02/27/2007 |
