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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Flir Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, OR (US);
Matthew Joseph Szabo, Stillwater, OK (US);
Phillip Vickery, Stillwater, OK (US);
Brian D. O'Dell, Stillwater, OK (US);
Andrew C. Teich, West Linn, OR (US);
Jeffrey D. Frank, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
FLIR SYSTEMS, INC., Wilsonville, OR (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for displaying a panoramic view image includes transmitting video data from a plurality of sensors to a data processor and using the processor to stitch the video data from respective ones of the sensors into a single panoramic image. A focus view of the image is defined and the panoramic image is scrolled such that the focus view is centered in the display. A high resolution camera is aimed along a line corresponding to a center of the focus view of the image and an image produced by the camera is stitched into the panoramic image. A mapping function is applied to the image data to compress the data and thereby reduce at least the horizontal resolution of the image in regions adjacent to the side edges thereof.