Television – Panoramic – With continuously rotating element
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-16
2005-08-16
Garber, Wendy R. (Department: 2612)
Television
Panoramic
With continuously rotating element
C348S208160
Reexamination Certificate
active
06930703
ABSTRACT:
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 acquired image to a reference image. If the recently acquired image is optimally overlapped with the reference image, an exposure is triggered. In a digital camera, the images may be acquired with the native imager. In a film-based camera, or as an alternative embodiment for the digital camera, a sensor may be used to measure displacement. A series of images comprising a pan may be stored in the camera, or alternatively, each subsequent image may be stitched to a previous image to create a single panoramic image.
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Gennetten K Douglas
Hubel Paul M.
Garber Wendy R.
Henn Timothy J.
Hewlett--Packard Development Company, L.P.
Ritz T. Grant
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