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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Brian Keith Cabral, San Jose, CA (US);
Forrest Samuel Briggs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joyce Hsu, Oakland, CA (US);
Albert Parra Pozo, San Mateo, CA (US);
Andrew Hamilton Coward, State College, PA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A camera system is configured to capture 360 degree image information of a local area, at least a portion of which is in stereo. The camera system includes a plurality of peripheral cameras, a plurality of axis cameras, a first rigid plate, and a second rigid plate, each aligned along an alignment axis. The peripheral cameras are arranged in a ring configuration that allows objects in the local area past a threshold distance to be within the fields of view of at least two peripheral cameras. The first and second rigid plates secure to a top and a bottom surface of the ring of peripheral cameras, respectively. At least one axis camera is arranged along the alignment axis and is coupled perpendicularly to a surface of the first rigid plate.