Patent ID: 9491339
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A spherical camera system, comprising: a camera mounting frame having six camera mounts for six mounted cameras, each camera mount including a mounting component that defines an opening for a respective lens of a corresponding mounted camera of the six mounted cameras at a respective lens orientation such that the six mounted cameras provide different respective lens orientations relative to each other, with each mounted camera providing a different field of view facing outward from the camera mounting frame; the camera mounting frame having an integrated support mount located at an equidistant location from three respective lens centers of three adjacent mounted cameras of the six mounted cameras, the integrated support mount forming a threaded female receptacle to interface with a corresponding threaded male connector of a support element at an orientation that passes along an average of three different respective lens orientations of the three adjacent mounted cameras.