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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Valorisation-recherche, Limited Partnership, Montreal, CA;
Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture, Carignan, CA;
Sébastien Roy, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
A method for generating a 360 degree view. N input images are captured from N cameras fixed at a baseline height equidistantly about a circle in an omnipolar camera setup where N≧3. Two epipolar lines are defined per field of view from the cameras to divide the field of view of each one of the cameras into four parts. Image portions from each one of the cameras are stitched together along vertical stitching planes passing through the epipolar lines. Regions corresponding to a visible camera are removed from the image portions using deviations performed along the epipolar lines. Output images are formed for left and right eye omnistereo views by stitching together the first one of the four parts from each one of the fields of view and the second one of the four parts from each one of the fields of view, respectively.