Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wide-angle compound-eye imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 广角复眼成像装置
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Application No.: US12398512Application Date: 2009-03-05
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Publication No.: US07974015B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Takashi Toyoda , Yoshizumi Nakao , Yoshimasa Imahori
- Applicant: Takashi Toyoda , Yoshizumi Nakao , Yoshimasa Imahori
- Applicant Address: JP Daito-shi
- Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Daito-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2008-056805 20080306
- Main IPC: G02B13/06
- IPC: G02B13/06 ; G02B13/04 ; G02B13/18

Abstract:
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/right optical lenses are placed on left-right direction line parallel to the wide-angle direction, while the center lens is placed distant from the left/right lenses above the direction line. Prisms are placed in front of the left/right lenses, and a toroidal lens to vertically modify the light path for light convergence onto each lens is placed in front of the prisms. The toroidal lens has a vertically curved surface having an axis coinciding with the direction line, and a horizontally cured surface having an axis coinciding with a vertical line passing through the center lens. This device can obtain a wide-angle image with a vertically large picture angle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090225432A1 Wide-Angle Compound-Eye Imaging Device Public/Granted day:2009-09-10
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