Free-form lens design for wide-angle imaging with an equidistance projection scheme

Optik

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 74-78

  Yang, Bo ^a   Mäkinen, Jukka Tapani ^b   Aikio, Mika ^b   Jin, Guofan ^a   Wang, Yongtian ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Equidistance projection scheme; Free form lens; Optical design; Panoramic lens

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CAMERAS; LENSES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

ANGLE IMAGES; ANGLE IMAGING; ANGLE OF INCIDENCES; ANGLE OF REFRACTIONS; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; EQUIDISTANCE PROJECTION SCHEME; EQUIDISTANCE PROJECTIONS; FREE-FORM LENS; IMAGING DEVICES; LENS DESIGNS; LENS SURFACES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PANORAMIC LENS; SURFACE PROFILES; VIEWING ANGLES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 56049104485     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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