Patent ID: 11886097
Assignee: LUMILEDS, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  F | IPC F  G

Claim 19:
20. An illumination system, comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image of a scene during an exposure duration of the camera;
a light-emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of LEDs configured to produce light during the exposure duration of the camera, the LED array including a non-emitting area surrounding the LEDs in the LED array;
a lens configured to direct the light toward the scene as illumination, the illumination including one or more dark bands corresponding to the non-emitting area of the LED array; and
an actuator configured to translate at least one of the LED array or the lens during the exposure duration of the camera so as to blur the one or more dark bands in the illumination in the image of the scene, the one or more dark bands blurred in response to translation of the at least one of the LED array or the lens.