CAMERA DEVICES WITH A LARGE FIELD OF VIEW FOR STEREO IMAGING
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Abstract
The invention relates to a camera device. The camera device has a view direction and comprises a plurality of cameras, at least one central camera and at least two peripheral cameras. Each said camera has a respective field of view, and each said field of view covers the view direction of the camera device. The cameras are positioned with respect to each other such that the central cameras and peripheral cameras form at least two stereo camera pairs with a natural disparity and a stereo field of view, each said stereo field of view covering the view direction of the camera device. The camera device has a central field of view, the central field of view comprising a combined stereo field of view of the stereo camera pairs, and a peripheral field of view comprising fields of view of the cameras at least partly outside the central field of view.
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17. A camera device, having a view direction of said camera device, said camera device comprising:
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a plurality of cameras, comprising at least one central camera and at least two peripheral cameras, each said camera having a respective field of view, each said field of view covering said view direction of said camera device, said plurality of cameras being positioned with respect to each other such that said at least one central camera and said at least two peripheral cameras form at least two stereo camera pairs with a natural disparity, each said stereo camera pair having a respective stereo field of view, each said stereo field of view covering said view direction of said camera device, said camera device having a central field of view, said central field of view comprising a combined stereo field of view of said stereo fields of view of said stereo camera pairs, said central field of view comprising said view direction of said camera device, said camera device having a peripheral field of view, said peripheral field of view comprising a combined field of view of said fields of view of said plurality of cameras of said camera device at least partly outside said central field of view. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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- 29. A camera device comprising cameras at locations essentially corresponding to eye positions of a human head at normal anatomical posture, eye positions of said human head at maximum flexion anatomical posture, eye positions of said human head at maximum extension anatomical posture, and eye positions of said human head at maximum left and right rotation anatomical postures.
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32. A camera device comprising at least three cameras, said cameras being disposed such that their optical axes in the direction of the respective camera'"'"'s field of view fall within a hemispheric field of view, said camera device comprising no cameras having their optical axes outside said hemispheric field of view, and said camera device having a total field of view covering a full sphere.
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