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An easy to integrate revolutionary camera module opens up new applications - Taking camera technology to a new level, Sony Europe Image Sensing Solutions' panoramic camera module allows full circle, 360° images to be viewed in real time, with no moving parts. This allows users to constantly view a full, live and undistorted panoramic image, which until now was obtained by combining or "stitching" shots to form the panorama a 360° panoramic image from multiple cameras or by taking multiple shots while rotating a camera slowly. The compact Sony panoramic devices can be combined with a variety of different products to create new and earlier unattainable functions and applications (Plate 1).
Sony Image Sensing Solutions is releasing the RPU-C251 panoramic camera as an OEM module aimed at value added manufacturers and integrators. The RPU-C251 uses a 360° full-circle lens (see editor's note) with a 1.3M-pixel, 7.5 fps CCD to output a ring-shaped image as a composite video signal. Proprietary Sony DSP technology ensures that the doughnut image is reformed as a perfect panoramic view.
Sony product manager for Image Sensing Solutions, Julien Dalle explains, "Sony Europe has undertaken a research study of European vision system integrators who have indicated that the best-in-class functionality and innovative 360°-view technology of the new...