Multi-eyed network camera for convenient 3D video capturing

To capture and record a multi-view video is inconvenient due to needing mechanism for synchronization between cameras and computational cost for video coding. This paper presents a multi-eyed network camera which has five fixed HD camera modules and a gigabit Ethernet port. Only one LSI controls the camera modules and encodes all captured videos. To reduce computational complexity and keep synchronization, compressing is based on distributed video coding, and multiplexing is an extension format of the H. 264/MVC NAL structure. Implementation results show that all functions are integrated in the LSI and that the synchronization is kept after transmitting.