Rolling Shutter Synchronization

摘要

A camera system configuration generates 2D or 3D images capable of being stitched together to create panoramic images. The configuration detects a communication coupling of at least two cameras for capturing a sequence of images. The cameras themselves are configured such that their rolling shutters mitigate field of view artifacts from adjacent cameras (2D panoramas) and adjacent 3D camera pairs (3D panoramas) by allowing for the substantially temporally-aligned capture of light in overlap regions between adjacent cameras.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a slave camera having a first rolling shutter configured to expose a first image sensor to a first field of view; and a master camera communicatively coupled to the slave camera and having a second rolling shutter configured to expose a second image sensor to a second field of view overlapping the first field of view, the master camera configured to select a first rolling direction for the first rolling shutter such that the first rolling direction is substantially opposite a second rolling direction of the second rolling shutter, and to provide the selected first rolling direction and an image capture instruction to the slave camera such that the slave camera captures an image with the first rolling shutter rolling in the selected first rolling direction at a time temporally proximate to the capture of an image by the master camera with the second rolling shutter rolling in the second rolling direction.