Multi-sensor panoramic network camera
First Claim
1. Multi-sensor network camera comprising two or more image sensors with focal planes of said image sensors positioned at the angle to each other, network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originating by said image sensors and the means of multiplexing of said image data streams into said network interface.
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Abstract
The subject of this invention is a multi-sensor network camera providing up to 360 degrees angle of view. The camera disclosed in the present invention comprises multiple image sensors with individual optics, one or more image processors, compression units and network interfaces mounted in the single housing. In the preferred embodiment image sensors are positioned in non-parallel planes, cumulatively providing panoramic field of view. In the preferred embodiment image streams originating from all sensors share the same image compression and network interface hardware, providing for low cost implementation. In the preferred embodiment the images from all sensors are transmitted over the network simultaneously via packet interleaving, with appropriate bandwidth reduction achieved by image decimation. In one of the embodiments of this invention, simultaneously with transmission of decimated images from all sensors, full resolution window or entire image of one or more sensors is also transmitted, where the selection of contents is based either on motion detection or user setting.
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- 1. Multi-sensor network camera comprising two or more image sensors with focal planes of said image sensors positioned at the angle to each other, network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originating by said image sensors and the means of multiplexing of said image data streams into said network interface.
- 10. Multi-sensor network camera comprising two or more image sensors with focal planes of said image sensors positioned at the angle to each other, network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originating by said image sensors, the means of multiplexing of said image data streams into said network interface and one or more image processors equipped to decimate and compress images from said image sensors.
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28. Camera system comprising:
- multi-sensor network camera comprising two or more image sensors with focal planes of said image sensors positioned at the angle to each other, network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originating by said image sensors and the means of multiplexing of said image data streams into said network interface; and
computer system receiving the images and software running on said computer system, wherein said software is configured to perform concatenation of images received from said multiple image sensors of said camera into one composite image. - View Dependent Claims (29)
- multi-sensor network camera comprising two or more image sensors with focal planes of said image sensors positioned at the angle to each other, network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originating by said image sensors and the means of multiplexing of said image data streams into said network interface; and
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