Patent ID: 8520138
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital panoramic camera for acquiring an image over an extended horizontal field of view, said digital panoramic camera comprising: a body for internally housing components of said digital panoramic camera, said body being adapted to receive a photographic lens; a dichroic filter arrangement, said dichroic filter arrangement being adapted to enable simultaneous separate imaging through said photographic lens of an image's red, blue and green color components and wherein said dichroic filter arrangement comprises: a rotational mount integral with said body and providing said digital panoramic camera with an axis of rotation such that said axis of rotation passes through the front nodal point of said photographic lens as said photographic lens is received upon said body; and wherein the internally housed components of said digital panoramic camera are distributed about said axis of rotation such that the weight of said digital panoramic camera is substantially evenly distributed about said axis of rotation.