Multiple camera field of view frame stitching

A method for capturing visual images, the method comprising:

• capturing first visual images with a first camera having a first field of view;
• capturing second visual images with a second camera having a second field of view;
• comparing the first and second visual images at one of the first and second cameras to define an overlap of the first visual image and the second visual image;
• communicating the second visual images from the second camera to the first camera;
• stitching at the first camera the first visual image and the second visual image to generate a consolidated visual image based upon the overlap;
• communicating the consolidated visual image from the first camera to an information handling system;
• coupling a communication cable from the second camera to the first camera;
• communicating the second visual images from the second camera to the first camera through the communication cable;
• communicating the second visual images to the first camera in a raw pixel value format;
• compressing the consolidated visual image at the first camera;
• providing wireless communication from the first camera to the information handling system;
• and
• in response to the coupling a communication cable, suppressing wireless communication at the second camera.

A camera comprising:

• a lens;
• an image sensor aligned with the lens and operable to capture visual images;
• a processing resource operable to execute instructions that process information;
• and
• a non-transitory memory operable to store instructions that when executed on the processing resource cause:
• communication of resolution capability with the external camera;
• selection of a common resolution with the external camera;
• retrieval from an external camera of visual images captured by the second camera;
• comparison of the external camera visual images and the visual images captured by the image sensor to define an overlap;
• consolidation of the external camera visual images with the image sensor visual images to define a consolidated visual image having at least some of the external camera visual images and the image sensor visual images based upon the overlap;
• and
• communicate the consolidated visual image to an information handling system.