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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Noriyuki Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
To provide an excellent photographing apparatus including a plurality of cameras and capable of photographing a wide angle image with less parallax. View point positions (camera positions) of video camerastoare radially arranged at predetermined angular intervals on a horizontal concentric circle about a vertical reference axis that passes a predetermined reference point. The video cameras are fixed in such a manner that camera principal-axis directions of the video cameras are individually directed outward and upward from a horizontal plane by a predetermined elevation angle T, with the result that upper end portions of a vertical angle of view overlap. Therefore, photographing can be performed uninterruptedly even in an overhead direction without providing a camera that is directed right above.