Systems and methods for concurrently playing multiple images from a storage medium

摘要

Methods for storing on a storage or memory medium, and retrieving, and displaying of multiple images in a registered manner, the images have been recorded concurrently. The images may comprise at least 2 video programs. A camera system for recording multiple concurrent images is also disclosed. Lenses and corresponding image sensors are calibrated to have calibrated and associated settings for recording multiple images that are substantially registered images. A registered image may be displayed on a single display. It may also be displayed on multiple displays. A camera for recording and displaying registered multiple images may be part of a mobile phone.

主权项

1. A mobile computing device, comprising:
a single body camera, containing a first lens with a first image sensor with a first active sensor area and a second lens with a second image sensor with a second active sensor area; a memory containing a first camera setting, including a determination of a portion of the first active sensor area and a portion of the second active sensor area to be actively used to create a registered image, wherein the portions are not the whole first active sensor area and the whole second active sensor area and the determination includes the portions in coordinates of pixels and edges of the first and second active sensor areas to automatically generate the registered image, wherein
both the portion of the first active sensor area and the portion of the second active sensor area determined during a first calibration step and all image data of a single image frame generated through the first lens by the portion of the first active sensor area of the first image sensor from a scene merged with all image data of a single image frame generated through the second lens by the portion of the second active sensor area of the second image sensor from the scene form a registered calibration image of the scene; a controller, configured to retrieve during an operational step of the single body camera the first camera setting from the memory;
a multiplexer configured to multiplex all the image data of the single image frame generated through the first lens by the portion of the first active sensor area of the first image sensor and all the image data of the single image frame generated through the second lens by the portion of the second active sensor area of the second image sensor; a processor, configured to store on an image memory based on the first camera setting during the operational step the multiplexed image data generated by the portion of the first active sensor area of the first image sensor and image data generated by the portion of the second active sensor area of the second image sensor as contiguous image data representing the registered image; and a display enabled to display the registered image generated from the contiguous image data.