Patent ID: 7239345
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A master camera array comprising: a frame; a plurality of circuit boards mounted to said frame, said circuit boards having front and rear surfaces, the circuit boards defining a plurality of camera sites on said front surfaces, control data input connections, data output connections and a data bus extending along the circuit boards to said camera sites; a plurality of camera units, each such camera unit incorporating an imaging chip defining a plurality of pixels and a connection engaged with one of said sites so that each camera unit is connected to said data bus at one of said camera sites; data output circuitry connected between said camera sites and said data output connection for merging pixel data provided by said plurality of cameras into a common data output stream; wherein said cameras are physically mounted on the front surface of said boards; and wherein said common data output stream from each board may be combined into a master common data output stream, said master common data output stream capable of being parsed to identify each of said common data output streams from each of said boards.