Camera mounting for stereoscopic panoramic recordings
AssigneeBerliner Kta Shareholder GmbH
InventorDennis Alexander Niewöhner
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Abstract
A camera-mounting apparatus includes a mechanically stabilizing frame, a plurality of camera fastenings, each being suitable for receiving and fixing at least one camera. The camera fastenings are attached in a distributed manner around the frame and are oriented such that a total field of view of all the cameras is larger than a field of view of an individual camera. Each point of the total field of view lies in the field of view of at least two of the cameras. An interior of the frame includes a cavity for receiving a support, in particular the head of a person wearing the device or a small (approximately head-sized) vehicle or aircraft.
Claims21
A camera-mounting apparatus comprising:
- a mechanically stabilizing frame;
- and
- a plurality of camera fastenings, each of which is suitable for receiving and fixing a camera, the camera fastenings being attached to and distributed around the frame and oriented such that when a camera having a field of view is received by each of the camera fastenings, overall field of view of all of the cameras is larger than the field of view of an individual camera;
- wherein:
- each point of the overall field of view of all of the cameras lies within the field of view of at least two of the cameras;
- the frame is approximately ring-shaped, toroidal or bowl-shaped, or has the form of a hollow polygon, a hollow equilateral polygon of a hollow polyhedron;
- and
- an interior of the frame includes a cavity for receiving a head of a person wearing the device, or a small (approximately head-sized) vehicle or aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.