Patent Document ID: 8049786
Application ID: 11697988
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A device for improving image stitching accuracy, comprising: a camera array comprising of a plurality of cameras for capturing images to which a plurality of aperture controllers are connected respectively; means for correcting the lens distortion of each captured image using a lens parameter derived from feedback from the aperture controller connected to the camera that captured the image, wherein the lens parameter is distinct from the aperture setting of the camera that captured the image and one of a plurality of lens parameters; and an image stitching engine for transforming the captured images and stitching the transformed images into a seamless wide-angle image, the image stitching engine comprising a means for transforming the captured images, wherein the means for transforming the captured images receives corrected coordinates as input from the means for correcting the lens distortion, creating a corrected and transformed image.