Patent ID: 11922610
Assignee: KAMUY INNOVATION CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. A multi-eye photographing camera head used for multi-eye photography, comprising:
a single lens and a single image element,
a partial image acquiring part that acquires a partial image photographing prescribed part in a multi-eye photographing range from the image element,
a parameter memory part that stores correction parameters, which is determined according to the attaching position of the corresponding multi-eye photographing camera head and is used to correct distortions of the partial image,
an image correcting part that corrects distortions of the partial image using the correction parameters, outputs the partial image in which the distortions have been corrected to an image processing device which is separated from the multi-eye photographing camera heads as data for whole image that constitute part of a whole image, and makes the image processing device synthesize the data for whole image as the whole image,
a camera control part that acquires enlargement information from the image processing device, and
an enlarged area extracting part that extracts a portion of the partial image of the corresponding one of the corresponding multi-eye photographing camera head based on the enlargement information,
wherein when the camera control part receives an instruction to display an enlarged image of a part of the whole image that has been synthesized, the camera control part acquires, from the image processing device, the enlargement information specifying the part of the whole image to be enlarged according to the instruction,
the enlarged area extracting part determines whether the part of the whole image to be enlarged is included in the partial image, and
when it is determined that the part of the whole image to be enlarged is included in the partial image, the enlarged area extracting part extracts a corresponding portion of the part of the whole image to be enlarged from the partial image based on the enlargement information, and outputs the extracted portion of the partial image as data for enlarged image to the image processing device for synthesizing the outputted extracted portion of the partial image to form an enlarged image of the part of the whole image.