What is DIVER?   How does DIVER work?       Overview of DIVER system DIVER's theory of design   DIVER in action   DIVER's design directions   Panoramic video camera   Panoramic video recording   Who will use DIVER?   What makes DIVER different?   Who is the DIVER team?   Contact US			Panoramic Video Recording DIVER is exploring panoramic video capture using a camera made by Fullview. Each of 5 hi-resolution cameras views five overlapping scene regions reflected off planar mirrors. Outputs 5 s-video signals to Camera Control Unit. Distribution amps split each video signal to: 1. Computing engine (on board frame grabbers) takes in analog s-video in to create real-time "stitched" digital panoramic preview image. 2. The VTRs record the S-video to digital videotape (A/D converstion, S-video to DV). Why record 5 video streams on tape? Real-time preview display is already a producing a stitched together panorama. Why not use it? Live panoramic preview is greatly reduced resolution image Poor frame rate; not optimized for high resolution recording Hence, record 5 streams to separate VTRs.