Method and apparatus for acquiring a set of images illuminated by a flash

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PATENT NO 9769397
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14578242

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An electronic imaging device having a plurality of photosensitive cells arranged in an array to form a frame region, the frame region being composed of a plurality of frame sub-regions each frame sub-region corresponding to a sub-set of photosensitive cells, the device comprising an array controller configured to expose each of said frame sub-regions during an exposure duration wherein the exposure of at least some of said frame sub-regions occurs at different times during a total time of exposure of the frame region, a flash unit for illuminating a scene to be imaged during a flash time duration an activator for activating the flash unit to illuminate the scene to be imaged at a flash time delay determined in dependence upon said exposure duration of a frame sub region and the flash time duration; an image data acquisition unit for acquiring a set of frames of the scene wherein the time of occurrence of a flash event within a frame shifts temporally from frame to frame; and an image reconstruction unit for constructing a sequence of images from the frame sub-regions of the acquired frames.

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  • THOMSON LICENSING

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bureller, Olivier Cesson Sevigne, FR 14 26
Hudon, Matis Epinay sur Orge, FR 5 8
Kerbiriou, Paul Thorigne-Fouillard, FR 33 216

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