CAPTURING A PERSPECTIVE-FLEXIBLE, VIEWPOINT-SYNTHESIZING PANORAMIC 3D IMAGE WITH A MULTI-VIEW 3D CAMERA

摘要

A perspective-flexible, viewpoint-synthesizing multi-view camera for capturing a panoramic 3D image is provided. The camera includes a housing to arrange a plurality of imagers in a grid. The plurality of imagers has a plurality of focal lengths and a baseline length, the plurality of focal lengths and the baseline length selected to provide a change in disparity at a distant site that approximately matches a change in disparity at a desired viewpoint.