An HDTV 2/3-inch CCD Hand-held Camera Employing Dual-green Spacially Offset Image Pickup Method.

The Palomar 200-inch f/9 Cassegrain CCD camera

This article describes the design and construction of a CCD camera for the f/9 Cassegrain focus of the 200-inch (5 m) Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. This instrument utilizes a set of 18inch (0.45 m) diameter lenses to change the Cassegrain focal ratio from f/16 to f/9, and the optical design prescription of these lenses is reported. For CCDs having 24zm pixels, the f/9 focus gives a rec...

A 4K × 2 K-Pixel Color Image Pickup System

We have developed an experimental 4K × 2K pixel progressive scan color camera system. This new camera system has a data rate of 297MHz pixel/sec and 60 frame/sec and we are sure that horizontal and vertical limiting resolution of 1500TVL (TV lines) can be achieved on a color monitor. Instead of the previous approach of improving resolution simply by increasing the pixel count in a imager, a nov...

Integrated Range Camera Calibration Using Image Sequences from Hand-held Operation

This article concentrates on the integrated self-calibration of both the interior orientation and the distance measurement system of a time-of-flight range camera that employs amplitude-modulated, continuous-wave, near-infrared light (photonic mixer device PMD). In contrast to other approaches that conduct specialized experiments for the investigation of individual, potential distortion factors...

Plenoptic Modeling and Rendering from Image Sequences Taken by Hand-Held Camera

Outdoor Scene Reconstruction from Multiple Image Sequences Captured by a Hand-held Video Camera

Three-dimensional (3-D) models of outdoor scenes can be widely used in a number of fields such as object recognition, navigation, scenic simulation, and mixed reality. Such models are often made manually with high costs, so that automatic 3-D reconstruction has been widely investigated. In related works, a dense 3-D model is generated by using a stereo method. However, such approaches cannot us...