24-10-2009, 19:06
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Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Re: Poll: Would you be interested in an inexpensive Wide-Angle lens for the Axis Web
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Originally Posted by PhilBot
I wonder if anyone has considered making a spherical imaging sensor.....
Hmmmm. Off to patent search.
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Spherical reflective camera systems (both monocular and stereo) are fairly common. Several groups (including NASA, Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford, and MIT) did a lot of early development of the technology more than 15 years ago. Here is one example of a commercialized system from back in 1997.
-dave
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