Multi-camera array with housing
AssigneeGoPro, Inc.
InventorsTimothy MacMillan, Scott Patrick Campbell
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Abstract
Multiple cameras are arranged in an array at a pitch, roll, and yaw that allow the cameras to have adjacent fields of view such that each camera is pointed inward relative to the array. The read window of an image sensor of each camera in a multi-camera array can be adjusted to minimize the overlap between adjacent fields of view, to maximize the correlation within the overlapping portions of the fields of view, and to correct for manufacturing and assembly tolerances. Images from cameras in a multi-camera array with adjacent fields of view can be manipulated using low-power warping and cropping techniques, and can be taped together to form a final image.
Claims18
A multiple camera system, comprising:
- a plurality of cameras, each camera comprising a set of lenses, each camera comprising a trapezoidal cross-section such that a width of the camera increases from a first width at a front of the camera to a second width at a rear of the camera;
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- a housing configured to at least partially enclose the plurality of cameras such that a first side of a first camera of the plurality of cameras is substantially parallel to and abuts a first side of a second camera of the plurality of cameras, and such that a field of view of the first camera at least partially overlaps with a field of view of the second camera.
A multiple camera system, comprising:
- a plurality of cameras, each camera comprising a trapezoidal cross-section such that a width of the camera increases from a first width at a front of the camera to a second width at a rear of the camera, each camera enclosing a cone lens at the front of camera, each cone lens comprising a lens with a circular cross-section and a variable diameter such that both of a face of the cone lens facing the front of the camera and a face of the cone lens facing the rear of the camera are curved outward and away from a center of the cone lens;
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- a housing configured to at least partially enclose the plurality of cameras such that a first side of a first camera of the plurality of cameras is substantially parallel to and abuts a first side of a second camera of the plurality of cameras, and such that a field of view of the first camera at least partially overlaps with a field of view of the second camera.
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