Stereoscopic panoramic image capture device
AssigneeMicoy Corporation
InventorsDonald Pierce, Steven M. Herrnstadt, Trent Grover, Frederick Good
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Abstract
An imaging system comprising a plurality of first image capture devices. Overlapping rectilinear images are captured and halved, with the left halves being stitched and transformed into a first equirectangular image and the right halves being stitched and transformed into a second equirectangular image. The first equirectangular image, and second equirectangular image are displayed in a stereoscopic orientation to produce a stereoscopic equirectangular image. The imaging system may be utilized to capture a plurality of sequential images, to produce a full-motion stereoscopic equirectangular image.
Claims28
An imaging system comprising:
- (a) a first image capture device;
- (b) a second image capture device;
- (c) a third image capture device;
- (d) means for combining at least a first portion of a first image captured with said first image capture device with a portion of a second image captured with said second image capture device, to produce a first combined image;
- (e) means for combining at least a second portion of said first image with at least a portion of a third image captured with said third image capture device to produce a second combined image;
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- (f) wherein said second combined image does not comprise a majority of said first portion of said first image.
An imaging system comprising:
- (a) a first image capture device having a first orientation;
- (b) a second image capture device having a second orientation different from said first orientation;
- (c) a third image capture device having a third orientation different from said second orientation;
- (d) a fourth image capture device having a fourth orientation different from said third orientation;
- (e) means for combining a first image captured with said first image capture device with a second image captured with said second image capture device to produce a first combined image;
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- (f) means for combining a third image captured with said third image capture device with a fourth image captured with said fourth image capture device to produce a second combined image.
A method for producing a stereoscopic image comprising:
- (a) obtaining a first image;
- (b) obtaining a second image;
- (c) obtaining a third image;
- (d) combining a first portion of said first image with a portion of said second image to produce a first combined image;
- (e) combining a second portion of said first image with a portion of said third image to produce a second combined image;
- (f) displaying said first combined image and said second combined image in a manner which produces a stereoscopic image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.