ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,526, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Circle Optics Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Image compositing with adjacent low parallax cameras" was invented by Zakariya Niazi (Rochester, N.Y.), Andrew F. Kurtz (Rochester, N.Y.), Peter O. Stubler (Rochester, N.Y.) and Steven Fuller (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-camera imaging system includes a plurality of imaging units arranged side-by-side to capture images of a scene. A calibration module is configured to determine intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of camera modules of the imaging units and to establish a per-pixel mapping from image coordinates to a three-dimensional ...