A low-cost, user-friendly, and real-time operating 3D camera

This paper presents a low-cost, user-friendly, and real-time operating 3D camera design. Unlike most of the previous researches, this paper proposes techniques for integrating mass-produced consumer electronic devices and merging two taken 3D models. In the design, an off-the-shelf consumer video projector is used to reduce the cost, a dual-camera framework is adopted to improve the feasibility and practicability of the 3D camera, and a dual-port video graphics card with the extended display mode is used to construct a user-friendly viewfinder for real-time operating. Experimental results show that the proposed 3D camera achieves a good performance.