公开(公告)号：US10165182B1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US15394596

申请日：2016-12-29

申请人： Scott Zhihao Chen

发明人： Scott Zhihao Chen

IPC分类号： H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N7/18

摘要： Panoramic imaging systems and devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a disclosed panoramic camera assembly of a panoramic imaging system includes a first camera module including a first wide-angle-lens camera positioned to cover one half of a full spherical space and a second camera module including a second wide-angle-lens camera positioned to cover the other half of the full spherical space. Moreover, the optical axis of the first camera and the optical axis of the second camera are separated by a predetermined distance in a lateral direction perpendicular to the optical axes. Furthermore, the first camera module and the second camera module are positioned to have a predetermined amount of overlap in the vertical direction so that a height of the panoramic camera assembly is significantly smaller than a dimension of the first camera module plus a dimension of the second camera module in the vertical direction.

公开(公告)号：US10057487B1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-21

申请号：US15081721

申请日：2016-03-25

申请人： Scott Zhihao Chen

发明人： Scott Zhihao Chen

IPC分类号： H04N5/232 ,  G08B13/196 ,  G03B37/04 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G06T3/00

CPC分类号： H04N5/23238 ,  G03B17/02 ,  G03B37/04 ,  G08B13/19641 ,  H04N5/2252 ,  H04N5/2258

摘要： Panoramic imaging systems and devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a disclosed panoramic imaging system includes a housing which has a substantially spherical shape and a set of cameras mounted on and enclosed by the housing. The housing is further composed of a first hemispherical substructure which receives a first subset of cameras and a second hemispherical substructure substantially identical to the first hemispherical substructure to receive a second subset of cameras. Each of the first and second hemispherical substructures has a closed boundary, and the contour of the closed boundary resembles the contour of the seam of a tennis ball. Moreover, each of the first and second hemispherical substructures has a shape which resembles the shape of one half of the tennis ball. In some embodiments, the disclosed panoramic imaging system includes eight normal-lens or wide-angle-lens cameras.