Camera system
OwnerJoergen Geerdsinventor
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Abstract
A camera system includes a camera mounting frame having a plurality of camera mounts. Each camera mount is configured to hold a respective camera at a respective lens orientation such that mounted cameras provide different respective lens orientations relative to each other, with each mounted camera providing a different field of view facing outward from the mounting frame. The camera system may provide obstruction-free, fully spherical image and video capture to record spherical images or spherical videos in which the nadir hole and/or a physical support element of the camera system is eliminated or reduced in size during the digital stitching process of the image or video.
Claims2
A spherical camera system, comprising:
- a camera mounting frame having six camera mounts, each camera mount for retaining a corresponding camera of a set of six cameras at an orientation that provides a field of view for a camera lens of that camera that faces outward from a corresponding face of the camera mounting frame that differs from a field of view of each other camera of the six cameras, the camera mounting frame including, at a corner or a vertex of three adjacent faces of the camera mounting fame, a threaded female receptacle having an orientation that passes along an average of three camera lens orientations of three adjacent cameras of the six cameras.
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