Television – Stereoscopic – Picture signal generator
Patent
1995-06-28
1997-07-08
Chin, Tommy P.
Television
Stereoscopic
Picture signal generator
348 36, 348 42, 348 45, 348218, 348586, H04N 718
Patent
active
056466790
ABSTRACT:
In image combining method of phototaking an object to be photographed by using a plurality of image taking systems with portions of fields of view thereof overlapping, and forming combined image information by combining pieces of image information obtained by the image taking systems, coordinates changing processing is performed by using the distance information of an object to be photographed, and image signals output from the respective image taking systems are compensated in accordance with the changed coordinates. One of the compensated image signals is selected with respect to a region where a far-distance portion of the object is concealed by a near-distance object, of the overlapping region of a combined image signal. With this operation, a plurality of image signals output from the respective image taking systems are combined into one image signal output in a state defined by an arbitrary object distance and the imaging magnification from an image taking system in which the viewpoint position and the optical axis direction are defined by the shift amount of the viewpoint position from each image taking system and the convergence angle of the optical axis.
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Iijima Katsumi
Yano Kotaro
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Chin Tommy P.
Thanh Diep Nhon
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