APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING UNDERWATER IMAGES

摘要

Provided is a camera for capturing underwater panoramic views from a plurality of image locations along a path and data indicative of orientations and geographic locations of the camera at the image locations. The camera may include a water-proof housing and an image-capture module disposed at least partially in the water-proof housing and configured to capture a plurality of underwater images of visible light from a plurality of image locations along a path. The camera may also include a location sensor configured to obtain geographic locations of the plurality of image locations along the path, an orientation sensor configured to sense orientations of the image-capture module at the plurality of image locations along the path, and memory communicatively coupled to the image-capture module, and the location sensor, and the orientation sensor.