CAMERA DEVICES WITH A LARGE FIELD OF VIEW FOR STEREO IMAGING

摘要

The invention relates to a camera device. The camera device has a view direction and comprises a plurality of cameras, at least one central camera and at least two peripheral cameras. Each said camera has a respective field of view, and each said field of view covers the view direction of the camera device. The cameras are positioned with respect to each other such that the central cameras and peripheral cameras form at least two stereo camera pairs with a natural disparity and a stereo field of view, each said stereo field of view covering the view direction of the camera device. The camera device has a central field of view, the central field of view comprising a combined stereo field of view of the stereo camera pairs,and a peripheral field of view comprising fields of view of the cameras at least partly outside the central field of view.