Patent ID: 9330436
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a common outer lens; a plurality of cameras in a camera array, each camera including a plurality of lenses, an image sensor, and a housing securing the plurality of lenses and image sensor such that, for each camera of the plurality of cameras, light passing through the common outer lens and through an aperture of the camera is directed by the plurality of lenses to be incident upon the image sensor; wherein each camera in the plurality of cameras is oriented at a pitch, roll, and yaw such that an image captured by a first camera in the plurality of cameras comprises an overlapping portion with at least one other camera in the plurality of cameras when images are synchronously captured by the plurality of cameras, and such that each camera in the plurality of cameras faces in a direction that converges in at least one dimension with a direction faced by at least one other camera in the plurality of cameras, wherein the pitch is greater than 60 degrees and less than 80 degrees.