US Patent Issued to IMMERVISION on July 28 for "Constant resolution continuous hybrid zoom system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,467, issued on July 28, was assigned to IMMERVISION INC. (Montreal).

"Constant resolution continuous hybrid zoom system" was invented by Patrice Roulet (Montreal), Jocelyn Parent (Lavaltrie, Canada), Xavier Dallaire (Verdun, Canada), Pierre Konen (Saint-Bruno, Canada) and Pascale Nini (Orford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus captures images of a wide-angle scene with a single camera having a continuous panomorph zoom distortion profile. When combined with a processing unit, the hybrid zoom system creates an output image with constant resolution while allowing continuous adjustment in the magnification and f...