Panorama Ball Vision : A Small Spherical Display with Rotary LED Arrays(<Special issue>Real World Imaging)

Abstract

The development of a small spherical display with rotary LED arrays called "Panorama Ball Vision" is described. An omnidirectional image shooting system mating to the display is also mentioned. The display was planned to realize the moving-image version of Hashimoto's "Panorama Ball" which is novel way of expressing space by pasting the surrounding field of view onto the outside surface of a sphere. Besides panoramic images, the display can show other kind of spherical images like the moon, the globe, and the celestial globe.