PANORAMIC VIEWING SYSTEM

摘要

An imaging system having a compound lens with a wide angle azimuthal field of view and an annular field of view surrounding the wide angle field of view, together with a camera to receive radiation corresponding to distorted images directed towards it by the compound lens, an image transformer to transform the distorted images from the compound lens and a display device to display undistorted images from the image transformer.A compound lens with overlapping fields of view such that stereoscopic images may be obtained through a camera and corresponding display system. A compound lens with an annular optical element with an annular field of view and an azimuthal optical element with a field of view covering at least acute angles to the azimuth, in which the resolution of the annular optical element is essentially constant. A compound lens having an azimuthal optical element with a field of view including acute angles to the azimuth, and plural annular optical elements, all of which direct radiation through a radiation receiving aperture towards a camera.