Wen-Shing SUN¹, Chuen-Lin TIEN^2*, Chien-Yue CHEN³, and Der-Chin CHEN²

¹Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32001, R.O.C.
²Department of Electrical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan 40724, R.O.C.
³Graduate School of Optoelectronics, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan 40724, R.O.C.

(Received August 12, 2012; Revised December 27, 2012; Accepted December 28, 2012)

An optical design with a pyramid prism array is employed to simultaneously capture four images. The apex angle design of an upper and lower prism array is to form the upper and the lower images of the object. The design of the left and right prism array is to develop the left and right images. In the prism array, the unwanted image can be eliminated by blacken process in the plane gap between each prism. The optical design was based on the pyramid prism array and a single-lens to make the system light, portable and low-cost.

Key words: optical design, pyramid prism array, stereoscopic camera

^*E-mail address: cltien@fcu.edu.tw