Title:
OMNIAZIMUTH PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND OMNIAZIMUTH IMAGE SYNTHESIZER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3458486
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To provide a panorama image of high resolution and matched view point by dividing the periphery of the photographing device into plural directions, reflecting the images in the respective directions on a planar mirror and photographing those images with correspondent cameras.
CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with a camera part 11 for which plural cameras are arranged on a circumference at equal intervals and the optical axes of all the cameras are matched with the normal direction of a circumferential plane where the cameras are arranged, regular polygonal corn shaped reflection mirror 12 joining plural planar mirrors paired with the respective cameras toward the outside, and image synthesizer 13. Then, the camera part and the reflection mirror are arranged so that the central axis of the camera part 11 can be matched with that of the reflection mirror 12, the apex direction of the reflection mirror 12 can be opposite to the photographing direction of the camera part 11 and a virtual image formed by the planar mirrors at the lens centers of cameras comes onto the central axis of the reflection mirror 12, and reflected images photographed on the planar mirrors by the cameras are joined by the image synthesizer 13.
Inventors:
Masafumi Yoshizawa
Application Number:
JP26016894A
Publication Date:
October 20, 2003
Filing Date:
October 25, 1994
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
International Classes:
H04N1/387; G06T1/00; G06T3/00; H04N5/225; H04N7/18; (IPC1-7): H04N5/225; H04N7/18
Domestic Patent References:
| JP6141211A | ||||
| JP662288A | ||||
| JP4105476A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fumio Iwahashi (2 others)