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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
Mark Kenneth Davey, Bromley, GB;
Marcus DE Ferranti, Sydmonton, GB;
Bartu Ahiska, Esher, GB;
Grandeye, Ltd., Guildford, Surrey, GB;
Abstract
A system and method for automatically rotating a view of a wide-angle video camera. Preferred embodiments include automatic rotating of a stereographically projected view using a transformation engine which is capable of extracting a plurality of views under a remote pan tilt zoom (PTZ) control. In one example embodiment, when the center point of a video image of a selected view or region of interest is tilted through a direction which is perpendicular to the plane of the camera mounting (i.e., vertical when the camera is mounted on a ceiling) then the output image is automatically rotated 180 degrees about the pan axis. In preferred embodiments, the control circuitry then temporarily reverses interpretation of the tilt axis controls (for example, from PTZ controls), thereby allowing the view to tilt uninterrupted in the same direction past the auto-pivoting point.