Patent ID: 11879852
Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 12:
13. A camera apparatus for inspecting piping, comprising: a camera head assembly including:
a housing structure having a semispherical end with a plurality of ports including a centrally oriented port and additional concentrically oriented ports;
a transparent window provided at the front of the housing structure;
a plurality of imaging sensors including an imaging sensor and additional concentrically oriented imaging sensors having overlapping fields of view, the imaging sensors disposed in the housing and aligned with corresponding first ones of the ports;
a plurality of lighting elements disposed within the housing structure and aligned with corresponding second ones of the ports; the lighting elements being arranged to provide light through the transparent window and being individually controllable to reduce heat in the camera head assembly;
an electronic circuit for receiving image or video signals from a plurality of the imaging sensors and generating an output signal wherein the output signal includes a plurality of image frames corresponding to a digitally simulated articulation of the camera head assembly across a field of view seen by two or more of the imaging sensors; and
a communications circuit for sending the output signal to a camera control unit.