Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compact array of imaging devices with supplemental imaging unit
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Application No.: US15385759Application Date: 2016-12-20
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Publication No.: US10397549B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Adeel Abbas , David A. Newman , Timothy Macmillan
- 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: G06K9/46
- IPC: G06K9/46 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N13/243 ; G06T7/33 ; G06T17/00 ; H04N13/296 ; G06T3/40 ; G01S3/00 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/247 ; H04N5/262 ; G06K9/20 ; G06K9/36

Abstract:
A method and system are described. The method includes capturing a set of images from a 2×2 array of cameras, each camera of the array of cameras having an overlapping field of view (FOV) with an adjacent camera of the array of cameras. The method further includes synchronously capturing a supplemental image from a fifth camera, the fifth camera having an at least partially overlapping FOV with every camera of the array of cameras. Supplemental information is extracted by comparing the supplemental image with the set of four images. Portions of the set of images are stitched based in part on the supplemental information to produce a combined stitched image, the combined stitched image having a higher resolution than each image of the set of images.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180176541A1 COMPACT ARRAY OF IMAGING DEVICES WITH SUPPLEMENTAL IMAGING UNIT Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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