Single sensor multiple lens camera arrangement

An image capture device comprising:

• at least two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses facing substantially opposing directions, wherein a field of view of each of said lenses is greater than one hundred and eighty degrees, wherein said image capture device provides a three hundred and sixty degree horizontal field of view and provides at least a two hundred and seventy degree vertical field of view;
• at least one component to optically direct light from at least one of said two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses, such that optically directed light from both of said two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses strikes a sensor laden continuous surface of a single electronic image sensor, wherein two mutually exclusive, non-overlapping, elliptical regions of the surface of the single electronic image sensor exist, one of said two mutually exclusive non-overlapping elliptical regions representing a region upon which light from a first of said two fixed position ultra-wide lenses strikes, a different one of said two mutually exclusive non-overlapping elliptical regions representing a second region upon which light from a second of said two fixed position ultra-wide lenses strikes, wherein said at least one component comprise a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, wherein said first reflective surface has a first top line segment as its top edge and a first lower line segment as its lower edge, wherein said first reflective surface is angled at forty five degrees plus or minus ten degrees relative to a sensor plane of a top of said single electronic image sensor, wherein a first perpendicular plane between said first top line segment and the sensor plane exists has a first bottom line segment as an edge, wherein the second reflective surface has a second top line segment as its top edge and a second lower line segment as its lower edge, wherein said second reflective surface is angled at forty five degrees plus or minus ten degrees relative to said sensor plane, wherein a second perpendicular plane between said second top line segment and said sensor plane exists has a second bottom line segment as an edge, wherein said first lower line segment is collinear with said second bottom line segment, wherein said first bottom line segment is collinear with said second lower line segment, wherein said first bottom line segment, said first lower line segment, said second bottom line segment, and said second lower line segment are coplanar in a plane parallel to said sensor plane;
• said single image electronic sensor that converts optical image information contained within signal such that the electronic information is a digital encoding of imagery information for said image capture three hundred and sixty degree horizontal field of view and the at least two hundred and seventy degree vertical field of view;
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• a case that contains said at least two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses, at least one component to optically direct light, and said single electronic image sensor.

An image capture device comprising:

• at least two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses facing substantially opposing directions, wherein a field of view of each of said lenses is greater than one hundred and eighty degrees, wherein facing said lenses in generally opposing directions results in an overlapping region of image capture to provide a three hundred and sixty degree horizontal field of view and to provide at least a two hundred and seventy degree vertical field of view;
• at least one or more components to optically direct light from at least one of the two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses, such that optically directed light from both of the fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses strikes a single surface of a single image electronic sensor,
• wherein said at least one component to optically direct light comprise a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, wherein said first reflective surface has a first top line segment as its top edge and a first lower line segment as its lower edge, wherein said first reflective surface is angled at forty five degrees plus or minus ten degrees relative to a sensor plane of a top of said single image electronic sensor, wherein a first perpendicular plane between said first top line segment and said sensor plane exists has a first bottom line segment as an edge, wherein said second reflective surface has a second top line segment as its top edge and a second lower line segment as its lower edge, wherein said second reflective surface is angled at forty five degrees plus or minus ten degrees relative to said sensor plane, wherein a second perpendicular plane between said second top line segment and said sensor plane exists has a second bottom line segment as an edge, wherein said first lower line segment is collinear with said second bottom line segment, wherein said first bottom line segment is collinear with said second lower line segment, wherein said first bottom line segment, said first lower line segment, said second bottom line segment, and said second lower line segment are coplanar in a plane parallel to said sensor plane;
• said single image electronic sensor that converts an optical signal into an electronic signal;
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• a case that contains said at least two fixed position ultra-wide angle lenses, at least one component to optically direct light, and said single electronic image sensor.