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US 8,896,662 B2Granted
Method of creating a virtual window
AssigneeScallop Imaging, LLC
InventorPeter W. J. Jones
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Abstract
The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and mapping the pixels of those outputs to the pixels of a display screen by means of a lookup table so that a user can see a selected field of view within the larger fields of view that are seen by the sensors.
Claims5
A method for calibrating a panoramic image sensor, the method comprising:
- presenting a pattern to a plurality of imaging sensors, each of the imaging sensors having a plurality of pixels and being disposed on a sensor body, wherein the imaging sensors have partially overlapping fields of view;
- capturing an image of the pattern appearing in the fields of view of the imaging sensors;
- processing the captured images to identify overlapping portions of the pattern that correspond to overlapping regions within the overlapping fields of view of the imaging sensors;
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- processing the overlapping portions of the pattern to generate a lookup table comprising information that indicates at a certain time which pixels of which sensors sense a common portion of the pattern.
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