Patent ID: 7259375

Claim:
Video camera system comprising: image acquisition means for providing a video image stream, telemetry means for providing, in parallel with at least one image and for each point of the at least one image, information relating to the distance between the camera and the subject point corresponding to the point of the image, the telemetry means including: an intermittent source of invisible light, an image sensor operating within the invisible light range of the intermittent source, a shutter placed in front of the image sensor operating within the invisible light range, synchronization means for synchronizing the shutter and the intermittent source, and processing means for transforming the brightness information into information relating to distance, wherein the sensor operating within the invisible light range takes first images while having the shutter open and/or the intermittent source continuously lit and second images while having the intermittent source and the shutter opening and closing several times in a synchronous manner, the first and second images being alternated and wherein the synchronization means comprise means for manually adjusting the shutter speed.