Camera system

摘要

A camera system includes a camera mounting frame having a plurality of camera mounts. Each camera mount is configured to hold a respective camera at a respective lens orientation such that mounted cameras provide different respective lens orientations relative to each other, with each mounted camera providing a different field of view facing outward from the mounting frame. The camera system may provide obstruction-free, fully spherical image and video capture to record spherical images or spherical videos in which the nadir hole and/or a physical support element of the camera system is eliminated or reduced in size during the digital stitching process of the image or video.

主权项

1. A spherical camera system, comprising:
a camera mounting frame having six camera mounts for six mounted cameras, each camera mount including a mounting component that defines an opening for a respective lens of a corresponding mounted camera of the six mounted cameras at a respective lens orientation such that the six mounted cameras provide different respective lens orientations relative to each other, with each mounted camera providing a different field of view facing outward from the camera mounting frame; the camera mounting frame having an integrated support mount located at an equidistant location from three respective lens centers of three adjacent mounted cameras of the six mounted cameras, the integrated support mount forming a threaded female receptacle to interface with a corresponding threaded male connector of a support element at an orientation that passes along an average of three different respective lens orientations of the three adjacent mounted cameras.