Patent ID: 7084904

Claim:
A foveated wide-angle imaging system for capturing and viewing a wide-angle image of a scene, comprising: a foveated wide-angle camera system having a plurality of cameras that outputs raw output images, the plurality of cameras having a center camera located at a center of a foveated wide-angle camera system having a first field-of-view, wherein the foveated wide-angle camera system is approximately a hemispherical shape; a foveated wide-angle image stitching system that processes the raw output images to generate a stitch table; wherein the stitch table includes pixel coordinates for a preliminary foveated wide-angle image produced by stitching together the raw output image wherein the plurality of cameras further comprises: a left set of N cameras located on a left of the center camera; a right set of N right cameras located on a right of the center camera; wherein the left set of N cameras and the right set of N cameras have an increasing field-of-view that is wider than the first field-of-view as referenced moving away from the center camera along the hemispherical shape.