Patent Document ID: 9774798
Application ID: 15204956
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method to determine a number of image sensors, a number of image sensor sizes and a number of image sensor shapes corresponding to the number of image sensors associated with a wide field of view camera, the method comprising: obtaining a plurality of sizes associated with a plurality of image circles formed by a plurality of lenses associated with the wide field of view camera; obtaining an active image circle portion, wherein the active image circle portion is recorded by the number of image sensors; obtaining an active image sensor portion, wherein the active image sensor portion records an image formed by the plurality of lenses; disposing the plurality of image circles within a plane to obtain a desired image circle layout, wherein the plurality of image circles are tangential and non-overlapping, and wherein an area encompassed by the plurality of image circles comprises a minimal area; determining the number of image sensor shapes to be a number of bounding boxes encompassing the plurality of image circles disposed on the plane; repeatedly adjusting the number of image sensors, the number of image sensor sizes, and the number of image sensor shapes, until a first condition and a second condition are satisfied, wherein the first condition requires that at least the active image circle portion associated with the plurality of image circles is recorded by the number of image sensors, and wherein the second condition requires that at least the active image sensor portion associated with the number of image sensors records the image; and based on the number of image sensors, the number of image sensor shapes, and the number of image sensors sizes, forming each image sensor in the number of image sensors into the shape and the size associated with the image sensor.