Electronic devices having multiple position cameras
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMaria Natalia RUSSI-VIGOYA, Michael C. BARTHA, Dimitre MEHANDJIYSKY, Zheng CAO
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Abstract
A technique includes selecting at least one boundary for a panoramic image to be captured by a camera of an electronic device. The technique includes, based at least in part on the at least one selected boundary, moving the camera relative to a housing of the electronic device to acquire data representing a plurality of images that are associated with different imaged areas; and processing the acquired data to construct the panoramic image.
Claims15
An electronic device comprising:
- a multiple position camera to acquire a plurality of images associated with a first field of vision, the camera comprising having an associated second field of vision less than the first field of vision;
- an input device to receive input to identify the first field of vision;
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- an actuator to move the camera to acquire the plurality of images at multiple positions based at least in part on the input.
An article comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to:
- receive input representing boundaries of a composite image to be acquired by an array of cameras, wherein each camera has an associated field of vision, at least some of the fields of vision overlap each other, and at least field of vision is associated with a first region that has a degraded quality relative to a second region of the field of vision;
- receive image data acquired by the array of cameras;
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- based at least in part on the identified boundaries of the composite image and identification of the first region, process the image data to provide data representing the composite image.
A method comprising:
- selecting at least one boundary for a panoramic image to be captured by a camera of an electronic device;
- based at least in part on the at least one selected boundary, moving the camera relative to a housing of the electronic device to acquire data representing a plurality of images associated with different imaged areas;
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- processing the acquired data to construct the panoramic image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.