Patent ID: 8265477

Claim:
A stereographic camera system, comprising: a left camera and a right camera including respective lenses; an interface for receiving a selection of a selected stereographic imaging mode from three or more preset stereographic imaging modes; a preset parameter memory storing one or more preset stereo parameters associated with each of the three or more preset stereographic imaging modes; and an interocular distance mechanism to set an interocular distance between the left camera and the right camera based on, at least in part, the one or more preset stereo parameters associated with the selected stereographic imaging mode, wherein each of the three of more preset stereographic imaging modes is associated with a respective scene to be imaged, the one or more preset stereo parameters associated with each of the three or more preset stereographic imaging modes are preset based on assumed distances to objects within the respective scene, and the set interocular distance differs between at least some of the three or more preset stereographic imaging modes.