Patent ID: 9681045
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for generating a panoramic image, the method comprising: capturing image data from at least three cameras, the image data for each of the cameras being a series of rows captured by respective rows of an imaging array of the camera, the cameras being coupled in series such that all cameras except a first camera of the series of cameras is a downstream camera coupled to an immediate upstream camera; for each of the cameras, storing, one row at a time, the image data within a memory buffer of the respective camera; transmitting, one row at a time, the image data from each immediate upstream camera to the downstream camera coupled thereto; and combining, within each downstream camera, each row of the image data from the immediate upstream camera with a corresponding row of the image data from the downstream camera to form a row of combined image data.