Patent ID: 7999842

Claim:
A method comprising: capturing, at a same time, three segments that include first and second segments that are behind a third segment in a field of view of a camera by an image capture sensor of the camera, wherein the first, second, and third segments are non-adjacent segments captured from three different directions and the camera is continuously rotated; converting data captured by the image capture sensor of the camera into a data stream for each rotation of the camera to create one continuous panoramic data stream, each of the three segments capturing a portion of the field of view per rotation of the camera, wherein a plurality of video frames are captured for each rotation of the camera with two mirrors that are positioned in front of a camera lens to cause non-neighboring image segments from three different directions that are evenly spaced among a plurality of segments within the video stream to be captured in each frame, wherein the first and second segments are captured behind a field of view of the camera and include reversed image data when captured via the two mirrors, and wherein for each frame the three segments are separated into individual image segments, the reversed image data for the first and second segments are reversed, and each of the separated segments is arranged into a correct position with respect to the field of view when converted into the data stream to provide the one continuous panoramic data stream; converting the data stream from the image capture sensor into a continuously updated view of the portion of the field of view of the camera as the camera is continuously rotated; and creating a panorama video from the converted data stream with a frame rate of three times a rotation speed of the camera.