Canon Patent For A Multi-View And Multi-Lens Device

Another hard to decipher patent by Canon, spotted by Egami (translated). Apparently it points to a muli-view and multi-lens camera. Whatever such a device is for. A new cool gadget by Canon?

• Patent Publication No. 2014-110442
  • Publication date 2014.6.12
  • Filing date 2012.11.30
• Canon patents
  • Multi-lens camera concentrically arranged an imaging device and a plurality of lenses
  • I do light field, angle of view changes, perspective changes, noise reduction, resolution conversion, HDR, distance estimation, the disparity estimation
• Patent Publication No. 2014-110443
  • Publication date 2014.6.12
  • Filing date 2012.11.30
• Canon patents
  • I provided a handle to the multi-lens camera
  • Parameter change in the rotation of the handle
• Patent Publication No. 2014-110444
  • Publication date 2014.6.12
  • Filing date 2012.11.30
• Canon patents
  • I reduce the number of the imaging lens element than the number of multi-lens camera
  • By the rotation of the optical unit, to select a specific lens