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Multi-eye image pickup apparatus, and method and apparatus for measuring or recognizing three-dimensional shape

Patent 6118475 Issued on September 12, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject September 12, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 457397 filed on 06/01/1995

US Classes:

348/42, STEREOSCOPIC348/47, Multiple cameras348/48More than two cameras

Examiners

Primary: Le, Vu A.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

H04N 013/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1994-06-02 JP

Abstract

An apparatus is arranged to have two cameras set at a predetermined angle of convergence, image motion vector extracting portions each for extracting motion vectors between predetermined frames from images obtained in time series from the respective cameras, a stereoscopic parallax extracting portion for extracting a stereoscopic parallax between the predetermined frames, and a portion for obtaining final motion vectors or distance information from the motion vectors extracted by the respective motion vector extracting portions and the stereoscopic parallax extracted by the stereoscopic parallax extracting portion.

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