Patent ID: 8035680

Claim:
A panoramic viewing system, comprising: several cameras, which are distributed over an object to record scenarios around the object; a computer connected to the cameras and to which all camera images of the cameras are sent, the camera images being processed in the computer and presented to at least one operator for viewing; image-generating circuits, the cameras being connected to the image-generating circuits; associated frame grabbers connected to the image-generating circuits, the associated frame grabbers having outputs connected to the computer, the computer having several outputs; at least one display for the at least one operator of the panoramic viewing system, the computer outputs being connected to the display, wherein images are projected onto virtual 3D screens, which are made available in 2D as a quasi-3D panoramic image to the at least one operator; and a so-called alpha file is generated before the system is started, for which purpose, in a first step, an alignment of the virtual screens is read into the computer; an imaginary light beam is sent through each pixel of each screen and it is determined whether this beam also passes through another screen, where, if it does not, the intensity is set to 100%, whereas, if it does, the intensity of the screens in question are adjusted so that a sum of the intensities of the two screens in question is 100% and these determined and adjusted intensities are stored or filed in a table in a memory unit of the computer.