SBIR Phase I: A novel parallax-free, 360 degree panoramic camera system

SBIR 第一阶段：新型无视差 360 度全景摄像系统

• 批准号: 2026054
• 负责人: Andrew Kurtz
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: Circle Optics LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2026054&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; novel; parallax; free

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to advance long-form panoramic content capture at reduced cost. While content creators and producers seek panoramic content capture to create immersive viewing experiences, current approaches integrate many shots that consequently require expensive and time-intensive post-production. This project will save costs and labor by enabling seamless real-time capture of cinematic-quality panoramic content. Potential applications include security, risk and asset management, robotics, mapping, and live event capture; sectors that can benefit include navigation, aviation, tourism, construction, manufacturing, and entertainment. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an innovative camera system that fuses images captured through a camera array at the level of the lenses, rendering a perfect 360° image instantaneously. Minimizing overlapping image capture reduces the problems of parallax error and perspective errors, while valuable camera resolution is not lost on redundancy. This project will: 1) develop software; and 2) validate opto-mechanical alignment and assembly concepts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是以更低的成本推进长格式全景内容捕获。虽然内容创建者和制作者寻求全景内容捕获以创建沉浸式观看体验，但当前的方法集成了许多镜头，因此需要昂贵且耗时的后期制作。该项目将节省成本和劳动力，使无缝实时捕捉电影质量的全景内容。潜在的应用包括安全、风险和资产管理、机器人、地图和现场事件捕捉;可以受益的行业包括导航、航空、旅游、建筑、制造和娱乐。该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种创新的相机系统，该系统将通过相机阵列捕获的图像融合在镜头水平，瞬间呈现完美的360°图像。最大限度地减少重叠图像捕获可以减少视差误差和透视误差的问题，同时宝贵的相机分辨率不会因冗余而损失。该项目将：1）开发软件;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。