Publication number: 20070002159
Abstract: There are many inventions described herein. Some aspects are directed to methods and/or apparatus to provide relative movement between optics, or portion(s) thereof, and sensors, or portion(s) thereof, in a digital camera. The relative movement may be in any of various directions. In some aspects, relative movement between an optics portion, or portion(s) thereof, and a sensor portion, or portion(s) thereof, are used in providing any of various features and/or in the various applications disclosed herein, including, for example, but not limited to, increasing resolution, optical and electronic zoom, image stabilization, channel alignment, channel-channel alignment, image alignment, lens alignment, masking, image discrimination, range finding, 3D imaging, auto focus, mechanical shutter, mechanical iris, multi and hyperspectral imaging, and/or combinations thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 29, 2006
Publication date:
January 4, 2007
Inventors:
Richard Olsen, Darryl Sato, Borden Moller, Olivera Vitomirov, Jeffrey Brady, Ferry Gunawan, Remzi Oten, Feng-Qing Sun, James Gates