Patent ID: 6750904
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
A camera system including:n image capture devices having: respective n lenses arranged such that optical paths of each of said n lenses are substantially parallel to each other and each of said n lenses are located along a substantially perpendicular axis to said optical paths; a respective n storage arrays, said n storage arrays either being integrated within said n image capture devices or being connected thereto for receiving image output information therefrom, wherein said n storage arrays have output connections arranged for retrieval of segments of a plurality of images captured by said n image capture devices: an array of image sensor elements for each of said n image capture devices comprising or connected to a dedicated storage array for receipt of information from said array of image sensor elements; said output connections being in an Interleaved arrangement such that the segments of the plurality of images are interleaved between each other to produce an interleaved stereoscopic image, and to access segments of each of the dedicated storage arrays interleaved between segments of each of the other arrays; and wherein each said dedicated storage array has P rows and Q columns, a first set of P address lines being connected to the P rows and a second set of Q/n address lines and corresponding Q/n output data lines being connected to an equally spaced selection of Q/n of the Q columns, wherein said output data lines from each of said n image capture devices are interleaved to produce an interleaved image of P rows and Q columns.