We introduce our cutting-edge panoramic camera – a true panoramic camera (TPC), designed for mobile smartphone applications. Leveraging prism optics and well-known imaging processing algorithms, our camera achieves parallax-free seamless stitching of images captured by dual cameras pointing in two different directions opposite to the normal. The result is an ultra-wide (140ox53o) panoramic field-of-view (FOV) without the optical distortions typically associated with ultra-wide-angle lenses. Packed into a compact camera module measuring 22 mm (length) x 11 mm (width) x 9 mm (height) and integrated into a mobile testing platform featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon® 8 Gen 1 processor, the TPC demonstrates unprecedented capabilities of capturing panoramic pictures in a single shot and recording panoramic videos.
Jian Ma, Shenge Wang, Yunwen Li, Adrian Giura, Chris Miclea, Sergio Goma, "A True Panoramic Camera for Smartphone Applications" in London Imaging Meeting, 2024, pp 43 - 46, https://doi.org/10.2352/lim.2024.5.1.10