公开(公告)号：US20150002621A1

公开(公告)日：2015-01-01

申请号：US14375448

申请日：2013-01-25

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Daniel J. Ratner ,  Iain R. McClatchie ,  Alexander T. Starns

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/225

CPC classification number: H04N5/23238 ,  G03B15/006 ,  G03B17/08 ,  G03B37/04 ,  H04N5/2252

Abstract: Provided is a camera for capturing underwater panoramic views from a plurality of image locations along a path and data indicative of orientations and geographic locations of the camera at the image locations. The camera may include a water-proof housing and an image-capture module disposed at least partially in the water-proof housing and configured to capture a plurality of underwater images of visible light from a plurality of image locations along a path. The camera may also include a location sensor configured to obtain geographic locations of the plurality of image locations along the path, an orientation sensor configured to sense orientations of the image-capture module at the plurality of image locations along the path, and memory communicatively coupled to the image-capture module, and the location sensor, and the orientation sensor.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于从沿着路径的多个图像位置捕获水下全景视图的照相机和指示照相机在图像位置处的取向和地理位置的数据。 照相机可以包括至少部分地设置在防水壳体中的防水壳体和图像捕获模块，并且被配置为从沿着路径的多个图像位置拍摄可见光的多个水下图像。 相机还可以包括位置传感器，其被配置为获得沿着路径的多个图像位置的地理位置;被配置为感测沿着路径的多个图像位置处的图像捕获模块的取向的定向传感器，以及通信耦合的存储器 到图像捕获模块，位置传感器和定向传感器。