Seamless multi-camera panoramic imaging with distortion correction and selectable field of view

A process for the seamless display of a plurality of images, all of which have an overlapping field of view between adjacent images, said process comprising:

• arranging a plurality of cameras so as to collectively capture a panoramic or panospheric field of view;
• directing a stream of output from each of said cameras into an image transformation engine;
• removing distortions introduced by the image capturing process in said image transformation engine;
• removing redundant pixels to seamlessly merge said images and subsequently outputting a single stream of digital or analog video from said engine;
• directing output stream of digital or analog video to an image clipper;
• controlling said image clipper by a pan-tilt-rotation-zoom controller to select a portion of the merged images;
• color toning each of said separate output streams so that they can be blocked by a translucent color filter arrangement prior to observation thereof;
• directing each of said two separate viewable output streams from the collective overlapping field of view through said translucent color filter arrangement to separate eyes of an observer to permit stereoscopic viewing of overlapping regions;
• and
• displaying said portion for viewing thereof.