Abstract:

Panoramic camera has been developed to be HD and networking. There are four kinds of commonly used panoramic cameras: fish-eye panorama, multi-camera stitching panorama, reflective panorama, and double-fish-eye panorama. They have different developing histories and characteristic technical traits. As the first panorama camera, the fish-eye is the most technologically simple and mature.The multi-camera stitching can implement ultrahigh pixel imaging, but the image edge fusion and the overall white balance need to be improved. The reflective panorama employs reflective optics to compensate the low image resolution of the fish-eye panoramic camera. A combination of the double-fish-eye, fish-eye, and multi-camera technology enables the 360-degree horizontal and vertical imaging.

Key words: Panoramic, fish-eye, reflection, 720 camera, panoramic camera