Patent ID: 7102666

Claim:
A method of generating an image sequence of an object within a scene, comprising: capturing an image of the object with a plurality of networked variable pointing camera systems, wherein the camera systems are positioned around the scene, and wherein pointing and optical parameters from a first of the camera systems and mapping data for the camera systems are used to compute pointing and optical parameters for the remainder of the camera systems such that, at a point in time, the camera systems are aimed at the object and a size of the object in images from each of the camera systems is substantially the same; 2D projective transforming certain of the images captured by the camera systems such that a point of interest in each of the images is at a same position as a point of interest in a first image from one of the camera systems; outputting the 2D projective transformed images and the first image in a sequence corresponding to a positioning of the corresponding camera systems around the scene; and determining the mapping data for the camera systems by; determining the pose of each camera system with respect to the scene: determining the relationship of a zoom control parameter to the angular field of view for each camera system; and determining the relationship of a focus control parameter to the distance to objects for each camera system.