US 11,689,708 B2
Multi-aperture zoom digital cameras and methods of using same
Oded Gigushinski, Tel Aviv (IL); Nadav Geva, Tel Aviv (IL); and Guy Lifshitz, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Appl. No. 17/771,047
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
PCT Filed Dec. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/062463
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 22, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/140403, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/958,488, filed on Jan. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394233 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 13/25 (2018.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); H04N 13/243 (2018.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 13/25 (2018.05) [G06T 7/593 (2017.01); H04N 13/243 (2018.05); H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a) a first scanning camera operative to provide first image data of an object or scene and having a first native field of view FOV1, the first scanning camera operative to change the location of FOV1 on the object or in the scene so as to scan in a first plane over a solid angle larger than the native FOV1;
b) a second scanning camera operative to provide second image data of the object or scene and having a second native field of view FOV2, the second scanning camera operative to change the location of FOV2 on the object or in the scene so as to scan in a second plane over a solid angle larger than the native FOV2, wherein the first plane and the second plane are substantially parallel, wherein the first and second scanning cameras have respective centers that lie on a first axis that is perpendicular to the first and second planes and are separated by a distance B from each other; and
c) a camera controller operatively coupled to the first and second scanning cameras and configured to control the scanning of each camera.