Stereo camera

A stereo camera is a type of camera with two or more lenses. This allows the camera to simulate human binocular vision, and therefore gives it the ability to capture 3-D Images, a process known as Stereoscopy. Stereo cameras may be used for making Stereograms and 3D pictures for movies. The distance between the lenses in a stereo camera (the inter-camera distance) is about the distance between one's eyes (known as the interocular distance) and is about 6.35cm, though a longer base line (greater inter-camera distance) produces more extreme 3-dimensionality.

Related Topics:
Camera - Binocular vision - Stereoscopy - Stereograms

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3D pictures following the theory behind stereo cameras can also be made more inexpensively by taking two pictures with the same camera, but moving the camera a few inches either left or right. If the image is edited so that each eye sees a different image, then the image will appear to be 3D.

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There are sometimes stereo cameras mounted in cars that can detect the lane's width and the proximity of an obstacle on the road.

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