My guess is that IPIX patent is only for full pano made up of 2 fisheyes only. The new RealViz Stitcher will work with fisheyes too, but only with at least 3 shots.

pvk wrote:

My guess is that IPIX patent is only for full pano made up of 2 fisheyes only. The new RealViz Stitcher will work with fisheyes too, but only with at least 3 shots.

Not really.  If you read the patents (and there are several), together they make WIDE claims.  It's isn't simply about "2" fisheye images or "3" fisheye images being used to construction a panorama.  It isn't even specifically about fisheye lenses!!

AlexandreJ wrote:

That's a real concern.

No longer:
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/ar … 13,00.html

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en& … ;scoring=d

So please do not delay fisheye support any longer. I already bought Autopano Pro in february because of this promised functionality, and it is hard to swallow that I still cannot use this program.

I still think that Autopano Pro has great potential. But at this moment, PTGui is better in just every single aspect. You have my support Alexandre, do your best!

I don't sure that bancruptcy will closes all questions about patents.

1. Bancruptcy need more time to completes. But we can't wait

2. I think that IPIX will sell all it's goods. Patents too

3. 1 Patent was taken away from IPIX to another man some years ago (I don't remember name, can find if you want) and he continue war with software developers and panorama makers.

Last edited by Panorama fanatic (2006-08-01 11:58:17)

please help us because we are in a bib big trouble caused by IPIX.
(We are one of their last customers, we bought 9 pcs. of CVD2000XT cameras. But they are out of business, and we can not use the cameras without softwares and support...)
We need the IPIX Video SDk and the ITK ActiveX softwares.
Without these we cannot use the cams and our project will fall down...
Please help us!

we need these:
ActiveX:
ITKActiveXInst.exe
IPIX Video SDK

Regards

Is there any more news about this issue? Will Kolor have to buy a patent?

To my knowledge only Stitcher has the capability to stitch fisheyes (starting from 3 photos). All the other panotools-derivates use the (hacked and illegal) pano12.dll.