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AssigneeThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
InventorsSujit Kuthirummal, Shree Nayar
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Catadioptric single camera systems capable of sampling the lightfield of a scene from a locus of circular viewpoints and the methods thereof are described. The epipolar lines of the system are radial, and the systems have foveated vision characteristics. A first embodiment of the invention is directed to a camera capable of looking at a scene through a cylinder with a mirrored inside surface. A second embodiment uses a truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. A third embodiment uses a first truncated cone with a mirrored outside surface and a second truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. A fourth embodiment of the invention uses a planar mirror with a truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. The present invention allows high quality depth information to be gathered by capturing stereo images having radial epipolar lines in a simple and efficient method.
A catadioptric single camera system comprising:
A lens assembly comprising:
A lens assembly comprising:
A lens assembly comprising:
A lens assembly comprising:
A method obtaining depth information from an image, said method comprising:
A computer readable medium comprising instructions being executed by a computer, the instructions including a software application for obtaining depth information from an image, the instructions for implementing the steps of:
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