ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,827, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Sub-sampled wide field imaging system" was invented by David E. Sproles (Kihei, Hawaii) and Zachary T. Stein (Haiku, Hawaii).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods provide for an imaging system including a lens assembly, an imaging sensor, and a steering mechanism. The lens assembly includes a wide field of view lens. The lens assembly is to receive raw light rays and to output transformed light rays with a full field of view. The transformed light rays include a first transformed light ray bundle and a second transformed light ray bund...