Squito: A Throwable Camera Prototype, Takes 360-Degree Panoramic Aerial Photos

Squito Is A Throwable Camera Prototype, Takes 360-Degree Panoramic Aerial Photos

Once in your lifetime when using a camera it would happened  that it get slipped from your hands and you know its result better than me but now it's time for the camera for which while doing this you don't need to worry about it's cosequences. Squito, a prototype throwable camera ball capable of producing stabilized 360-degree images and video that could prove useful in several different fields. With Squito it is possible to take aerial shots.

As the Squito, as it's known, is thrown from one person to another, the built-in cameras take multiple airborne photos over the full course of the trajectory. Hollinger's Squito is capable of taking photos continuously throughout the throw.

The Squito is thrown from one person to another, take multiple airborne photos over the full course of the trajectory

It uses orientation sensors to know when to take the images before stitching the multiple pictures together to create a single panoramic aerial shot.

The Squito Uses orientation sensors to create a single panoramic aerial shot.

The throwable camera was designed by inventor Steve Hollinger from Massachusetts and a patent for the device was granted this week. Hollinger has recently been awarded a second patent related to throwable camera technology. His first was filed in 2010 and referred to "a throwable ball-shaped camera that utilizes position and orientation sensors to capture and process images over the course of its airborne trajectory."

Squito is the size of a tennis ball and is fitted with three cameras, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) - or orientation sensor - a microcontroller and image processor.

Squito is the size of a tennis ball and is fitted with three cameras, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) - or orientation sensor - a microcontroller and image processor.

According to Hollinger, possible future uses for the Squito include "recreation, professional sports, architecture, reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, first responder scene assessment, landscape photography, projectile point-of-view, full spherical capture for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and 3D mapping applications."

“Throwable camera innovations are accelerating with advancements in sensor and imaging microelectronics,” says Hollinger. “With the advent of low-cost, high-speed cameras for outdoor recreation, an affordable throwable camera is finally within reach.”

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Write by: RC - Thursday, July 11, 2013