Digital refocusing for wide-angle images using axial-cone cameras

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PATENT NO 8493432
APP PUB NO 20110316968A1
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12825608

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A single camera acquires an input image of a scene as observed in an array of spheres, wherein pixels in the input image corresponding to each sphere form a sphere image. A set of virtual cameras are defined for each sphere on a line joining a center of the sphere and a center of projection of the camera, wherein each virtual camera has a different virtual viewpoint and an associated cone of rays, appearing as a circle of pixels on its virtual image plane. A projective texture mapping of each sphere image is applied to all of the virtual cameras on the virtual image plane to produce a virtual camera image comprising circle of pixels. Each virtual camera image for each sphere is then projected to a refocusing geometry using a refocus viewpoint to produce a wide-angle lightfield view, which are averaged to produce a refocused wide-angle image.

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  • MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Agrawal, Amit K Somerville, US 17 510
Ramalingam, Srikumar Cambridge, US 37 935
Raskar, Ramesh Cambridge, US 143 5411
Taguchi, Yuichi Cambridge, US 231 4663
Veeraraghavan, Ashok N Cambridge, US 3 207

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