Patent ID: 8548269

Claim:
A method of forming a stereoscopic image from multiple image sensors, comprising the steps of: (a) combining together a first set of images from different image sensors, the first set of images to be used as a left side perspective in the stereoscopic image and the first set of images being combined with an overlap of the first set of images; (b) combining together a second set of images from the different image sensors, the second set of images to be used as a right side perspective in the stereoscopic image and the second set of images being combined with an overlap of the second set of images; (c) removing an appearance of a seam between a pair of images in an overlap area of the first and second set of images, said step (c) including the steps of: i) aligning objects from the two different images in the overlap area by stretching the first image in a first direction by a factor of zero at a first boundary of the overlap and by a factor of one at the opposite boundary, and ii) aligning objects from the two different images in the overlap area by stretching the second image in a second direction, opposite the first direction, by a factor of zero at the second boundary of the overlap and by a factor of one at the opposite boundary, said steps (c)(i) and (c)(ii) comprising the steps of stretching different objects by different horizontal distances in the overlap area.