Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-camera array with shared spherical lens
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Application No.: US14921410Application Date: 2015-10-23
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Publication No.: US10200636B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Timothy MacMillan , Scott Patrick Campbell
- Applicant: GoPro, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Mateo
- Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
- Current Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Mateo
- Agency: Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N7/00 ; H04N7/18 ; H04N5/341 ; G06T3/00 ; H04N5/262 ; H04N5/232 ; G06T5/50 ; G06T5/00 ; H04N5/247 ; G06T3/40 ; G06T7/33

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160112634A1 Multi-Camera Array With Shared Spherical Lens Public/Granted day:2016-04-21
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