Apparatus and method for capturing a scene using staggered triggering of dense camera arrays
US8027531B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 21, 2005 |
| Grant date | Sep 27, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 2, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N25/60
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for video capture of a three-dimensional region of interest in a scene using an array of video cameras. The video cameras of the array are positioned for viewing the three-dimensional region of interest in the scene from their respective viewpoints. A triggering mechanism is provided for staggering the capture of a set of frames by the video cameras of the array. The apparatus has a processing unit for combining and operating on the set of frames captured by the array of cameras to generate a new visual output, such as high-speed video or spatio-temporal structure and motion models, that has a synthetic viewpoint of the three-dimensional region of interest. The processing involves spatio-temporal interpolation for determining the synthetic viewpoint space-time trajectory. In some embodiments, the apparatus computes a multibaseline spatio-temporal optical flow.
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