Device comprising a multi-aperture imaging device for accumulating image information

US11330161B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Frank Wippermann · Meiningen, DE
• Andreas Brückner · Jena, DE
• Jacques Duparre · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 2021
• Grant date: May 10, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N23/611
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A device includes a multi-aperture imaging device having an image sensor; an array of adjacently arranged optical channels, and a beam deflector for deflecting a beam path of the optical channels, wherein a relative position of the beam deflector is switchable between first and second positions so that in the first and second positions, the beam path is deflected towards first and second total fields of view, respectively. The device further includes controller adapted to control the beam deflector to move to the first and second positions to obtain imaging information of the first and second total fields of view, respectively, from the image sensor; and to insert a portion of the first imaging information into the second imaging information so as to obtain accumulated image information that in parts represents the first total field of view and in parts represents the second total field of view.