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7561187 |
Image distributing apparatus
To provide a technology for easily distributing an image in a requested photograph direction. Photograph images, which are photographed by turning a photographing apparatus and continuously...
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7528864 |
Processing apparatus and computer program for adjusting gamma value
To provide a processing apparatus for performing synthesis of video data to which video data of optically overlapped (duplicated overlap) video images are imparted. An image processor includes...
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7525567 |
Recording a stereoscopic image of a wide field of view
A scanning camera with a rotating drum has one or more sensors characterized by a non-radial optical axis. With two sensors on opposite sides of the drum and facing in substantially the same...
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7429996 |
Apparatus and method for sensing depth in every direction
An imaging system configured to take panoramic pictures is disclosed. In one embodiment, the imaging system includes a camera, range finder associated with the camera and configured to provide...
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7324132 |
Imaging three-dimensional objects
Imaging systems and methods are described. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a light source that is operable to generate a beam of light directed along a beam path and an optical element...
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7312810 |
Wide-angle image generating device
In a wide-angle image-generating device for obtaining a developed image by picking up a wide-angle image of about ±90 degrees using a reflecting mirror having a rotary-symmetrical convex shape,...
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7253832 |
Shape extraction system and 3-D (three dimension) information acquisition system using the same
A background lighting module illuminates an object from behind by visible light with respect to a photographing module to identify an area including the boundary between the object and the...
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7253801 |
Input device of 3-D translation and rotation and its method and recording medium
A photo device condenses the bright spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the...
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7206017 |
Image reproduction apparatus with panoramic mode based on aspect ratio
An image reproduction apparatus includes display-image discrimination unit for discriminating a display mode (normal display, at-a-glance display, panoramic display, etc.) in which selected image...
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7173649 |
Video airship
The video airship is a lighter-than-air airship, preferably spherical, including a video display disposed with substantially all of the craft's outer surface, a nearly invisible computerized...
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7158180 |
System and method for varying exposure time for different parts of a field of view while acquiring an image
A system and method for exposing different parts of a single field of view for various and differing lengths of time while capturing an image is provided. For astrophotography, unwanted light...
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7145947 |
Video data processing apparatus and method, data distributing apparatus and method, data receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and computer program
In the present invention, omnidirectional video images shot by a plurality of cameras are so distributed that the video images can be changed seamlessly on a receiver side. A panorama image, which...
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7136096 |
Image processing method and apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium
This invention has as its object to provide a convenient image processing apparatus which does not limit image sensing purposes. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus has a...
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7129971 |
Rotating scan self-cleaning camera
A scanning camera with a rotating drum has one or more sensors characterized by a non-radial optical axis. With two sensors on opposite sides of the drum and facing in substantially the same...
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7092132 |
Image reading apparatus and image input/output system
The purpose of obtaining a high resolution image with fewer number of image sensings in an image input device which allocates a planar object such as a document or the like into a plurality of...
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7058239 |
System and method for panoramic imaging
The present invention provides a system for processing panoramic photographic images. The system includes a mirror for reflecting an image of a scene, a mounting assembly for mounting the mirror on...
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6975353 |
Immersive camera system
An immersive scanning camera provides for a high speed imager to capture a scene of interest on a pixel by pixel basis. Distance data is collected for each pixel. This distance data is...
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6950153 |
Video image rotating apparatus
A video image rotating apparatus includes a rear projection screen rotatably disposed in a generally horizontal plane, thus allowing only a single mirror to be angularly positioned over the screen...
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6930703 |
Method and apparatus for automatically capturing a plurality of images during a pan
A camera for automatically triggering a plurality of exposures during a pan based on a measure of camera displacement. During a pan, the camera regularly acquires images to compare a recently...
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6831693 |
Image pickup unit having light incident side reflecting element and drive means for driving reflecting element, and apparatus having same
An image pickup unit for changing an orientation of an image pickup field by constructing a common portion as a unit. The image pickup unit preferably has an image pickup medium, an optical system...
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6778207 |
Fast digital pan tilt zoom video
A virtual PTZ camera is described which forms a virtual image using multiple cameras whose fields of view overlap. Images from the cameras are merged by transforming to a common surface and...
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6765566 |
Method and apparatus for displaying volumetric 3D images
This invention relates generally to new and improved methods and apparatus for displaying volumetric 3D images with colors and for barrier-free interaction with the 3D images. A raw 3D dataset is...
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6753847 |
Three dimensional volumetric display input and output configurations
The present invention is a system that allows a number of 3D volumetric display or output configurations, such as dome, cubical and cylindrical volumetric displays, to interact with a number of...
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6731305 |
Camera system which records camera identification in image file
A camera which has a plurality of subsystems which simultaneously capture a plurality of single view images which together form a panorama. An identification of the particular camera that produced...
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6473118 |
Imaging systems
An imaging system comprises an image-data collection station ( 1 ) having a platform ( 2 ) which is rotatable about an azimuthal axis. Several image sensors ( 3 ) are mounted on and rotate with the...
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6335754 |
Synchronization between image data and location information for panoramic image synthesis
An image recording apparatus uses a plurality of cameras point in a plurality of discrete azimuth directions so as to realize a walkthrough space. The apparatus stores, in video tapes, data frames...
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6304284 |
Method of and apparatus for creating panoramic or surround images using a motion sensor equipped camera
A camera system for generating panoramic images is described. The camera uses sensors to determine the orientation of the camera as each image is recorded. The orientation information is recorded...
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6144406 |
Electronic panoramic camera
The panoramic camera according to the invention has a housing having first and second sections, coaxial with a rotation axis. The second section can be driven in rotation about the axis with...
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6133943 |
Method and apparatus for producing a composite image
A composite image may be produced from a plurality of images. Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a process for producing a composite image includes the following...
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6118414 |
Virtual reality system and method
A novel display system for observing virtual and real images. The display system includes a light redirection surface or reflective surface (e.g, mirrored surface) to display, for example, a...
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6084557 |
System for displaying combined imagery
A video see through AR system capable of obtaining correct depth information with respect to each pixel representing a two-dimensional image is disclosed so that a portion of imagery which should...
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6072545 |
Video image rotating apparatus
An image rotating apparatus presents a projected video image upon a rear projection screen that is rotated extremely rapidly about a vertical axis which exactly bisects the picture in the vertical...
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6064423 |
Method and apparatus for high resolution three dimensional display
A process and system for displaying large (more than 1 million voxels) volumetric 3D images gives substantially higher resolution than is achievable with prior art techniques. The process and...
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6034716 |
Panoramic digital camera system
Method and apparatus for recording images at a scene in a panoramic manner enabling subsequent reproduction at remote display devices, and particularly enabling selection of a particular viewing...
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5790183 |
High-resolution panoramic television surveillance system with synoptic wide-angle field of view
A panoramic television surveillance system includes an image-sensing station having an imaging sensor with a line-format field of view mounted on a platform rotatable about an azimuthal...
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5708469 |
Multiple view telepresence camera system using a wire cage which surroundss a plurality of movable cameras and identifies fields of view
A multiple position camera apparatus and method for a three-dimensional computer controlled telepresence camera system useful in surrogate travel type applications. In one embodiment, it enables a...
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5677729 |
Panoramic vision apparatus
A panoramic vision apparatus having a simple structure is provided which produces an image from which the viewer feels a natural stretch. A shooter and a display are each provided with a prism. The...
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5650813 |
Panoramic time delay and integration video camera system
One or more time delay and integration camera assemblies (A) are mounted in a housing (100) which is rotated by a motor (40, 106) relative to a vertical axis. A tachometer or encoder (44) produces...
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5510830 |
Apparatus and method for producing a panorama image using a motion vector of an image in an image signal
A method and an apparatus by which a panorama image is produced with a high degree of accuracy from an image signal are disclosed. An image signal produced by a CCD imaging element is recorded onto...
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5097325 |
Circular scanning system for an integrated camera and panoramic catadioptric display
A circular scanning system for an integrated camera and catadioptric display has a photon camera tube with a scanning beam, a pixel clock generator for generating a pixel clock signal, a clock...
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4982092 |
360 Degree optical surveillance system
A 360 degree surveillance system for detecting an infrared IR signal coming rom a scene. The IR signal is reflected by the scanning mirror to an imaging lens. The scanning mirror rotates 360...
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4979026 |
Polarized light 360 degree viewing system
A viewing system is provided for presenting a real image in space that is rotated extremely rapidly so that an entire audience, regardless of an individual's position about the viewing system, can...
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4943851 |
360 degree viewing system having a liquid crystal display screen encircling a rotatable projection screen
A viewing system is provided for presenting a projected image upon a rear projection screen that is rotated extremely rapidly about a vertical axis which exactly bisects the picture in the vertical...
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4901140 |
Solid state 360 degree viewing system having a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen that encircles the rotating real image in space and functions as a multi-color filter system
A viewing system is provided for presenting a real image in space that is rotated extremely rapidly so that an entire audience, regardless of an individual's position about the viewing system, can...
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4760443 |
Display means
For the purpose of simultaneous presentation of an information on a display array (6) a display means has an image movement device (12,13), with the aid of which the image of the display array can...
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4576432 |
Aiming or sighting apparatus with synchronously rotating thermal imager and aiming head
An aiming apparatus, for example, for aiming at a target, has an aiming h (11), an ocular unit (13) and a display section (22) between the aiming head and the ocular unit. The display section (22)...
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4532544 |
Line-scan panoramic camera
The present invention in general relates to a television camera for digital on-line image processing, comprising an optical imaging system which images an object area sensed by the camera into an...
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4499490 |
Scanning apparatus with video camera
Apparatus for moving a mirror about a horizontal axis and a vertical axis so that the mirror can scan in all directions and up and down to receive light rays representing images of distant objects...
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4327312 |
Circular raster sweep generator
A sweep generator for producing a circular raster of curved scanning lines on the target surface of a video camera is disclosed. Each curved trace follows a substantially circular path through a...
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4100571 |
360° Non-programmed visual system
A system is disclosed for displaying a life or other size replica of a moboard or other scene in a non-programmed and real or other time manner, whereby said displayed replica constitutes a...
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