Real Time Transferring of Panorama Images from a Spherical Camera System to Smart Phones

Abstract: For a while ago during a contact from “sotningsdistriktet I Karlskrona” design of an inspection system was discussed where the system should inspect a wide field of view. The “sotningsdistriktet I Karlskrona” is a chimneysweeper society, which performs cleaning, and inspection of fire protection in the fireplaces and solid burning protection. The available commercial inspection systems, which are used today, have disadvantages like as their size and flexibility (often a mechanical solution is used to inspect a 180 degree of the inspection filed). In designing of such an inspection system which can fulfill the requirement of “sotningsdistriktet I Karlskrona” in another project (not current project) we are going to use 3 PicoEndo cameras which are placed at 90 degrees to each other. The signal of each camera is sampled and combined as a panoramic image by a hardware solution. Finding the suitable hardware, which can perform in real time, is one of the purposes of that project. Optimizing the panoramic algorithm is another goal of that project. By having the panorama images from the other project (which are fused image of the three camera images) in this project we are going to send the panorama images using wireless to an IPhone. One of the goals of the project is to find a real time transferring solution. As far as hardware solutions for wireless data transferring has difficulty to be in real time other solutions such as compressive sampling (or compressed sensing) is examined. Another goal is to design an application interface on the IPhone in which user will be able to receive the real time images for visual inspection and also has the possibility to save and/or archive the image/images.