Patent ID: 6577335
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A monitoring system, comprising:a first camera having a fish-eye lens; a second camera having a fish-eye lens, said first and second cameras being disposed in opposite directions and aligned with the lens of said first camera and the lens of said second camera facing one another, each fish-eye lens of the first camera and the second camera having a dead angle of approximately 22 degrees; image data extracting means for extracting first and second frame data corresponding to a monitoring range from first image data captured by said first camera and second image data captured by said second camera; and image combining means for generating combined frame data corresponding to the monitoring range by combining the first and second frame data extracted by said image data extracting means, wherein said first and second cameras are arranged sufficiently close together without creating parallax and without an object to be photographed being located between said first and second cameras, and said image combining means generates the combined frame data having a seamless connection between the first image data and the second image data.