Panoramic stereoscopic video system
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1. A panoramic, semispherical, stereoscopic video system, comprising:
- support means;
camera means, mounted by said support means, for collecting images and converting them to representative electrical signals;
a multiplicity of three or four optical devices, fixedly mounted at mutually spaced locations in a multilateral arrangement on said support means, for producing a said multiplicity of panoramic, semispherical images of a common field of view, said optical devices having mutually parallel panoramic axes and being optically connected to said camera means for delivering thereto the image viewed by said each optical device; and
electronic data processing means operatively connected to said camera means for receiving said representative electrical signals therefrom, and including programming means for converting said received electrical signals for the production of at least one coherent, visually perceptible, stereoscopic image of said common field of view.
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Abstract
A video system employs three or four panoramic optical devices, fixedly mounted on a stationary support, to provide, without movement, a coherent, visually perceptible stereoscopic image of a common field of view.
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1. A panoramic, semispherical, stereoscopic video system, comprising:
- support means;
camera means, mounted by said support means, for collecting images and converting them to representative electrical signals;
a multiplicity of three or four optical devices, fixedly mounted at mutually spaced locations in a multilateral arrangement on said support means, for producing a said multiplicity of panoramic, semispherical images of a common field of view, said optical devices having mutually parallel panoramic axes and being optically connected to said camera means for delivering thereto the image viewed by said each optical device; and
electronic data processing means operatively connected to said camera means for receiving said representative electrical signals therefrom, and including programming means for converting said received electrical signals for the production of at least one coherent, visually perceptible, stereoscopic image of said common field of view. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25)
- support means;
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17. A panoramic, semispherical, stereoscopic video system, comprising:
- support means;
camera means, mounted by said support means, for collecting images and converting them to representative electrical signals;
a multiplicity of three or four optical devices, fixedly mounted at mutually spaced locations in a multilateral arrangement on said support means, for producing a said corresponding multiplicity of panoramic, semispherical images of a common field of view, each of said optical devices being optically connected to said camera means for delivering thereto the image viewed by said each optical device; and
electronic data processing means operatively connected to said camera means for receiving said representative electrical signals therefrom, and including programming means for converting said received electrical signals for the production of at least one coherent, visually perceptible, stereoscopic image of said common field of view, said programming means functioning to select dynamically, from among said signals received from said camera means, signals that represent images produced, at any given time, by only two of said optical devices. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29)
- support means;
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