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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1997
Yoshihiro Yamamura, Tokyo, JP;
Nobushige Akita, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Seisuke Ohba, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Itano, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Niino, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a image pickup apparatus having three cameras for use in picking up a seamless panoramic image for a multi-screen, angles of view of the three cameras are jointed with each other without any overlapping or dead areas by making a side boundary line of one camera match with a complimentary side boundary line of another camera, the two outside cameras receiving an image in reverse through two reflection mirrors. The two reversed images are electrically or optically inverted by inversion sections to obtain original images.