323 results about "Device Camera" patented technology

A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phone device camera.) The resultant operation may additionally depend on other data obtained by the wireless device, e.g., obtained from an electronic or physical object, or sensed from the environment. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

A digital portable communications device (1) for communication via a communications network (28) has circuitry for exchanging video signals between the device and an external video apparatus (25; 31). The circuitry for exchanging video signals is arranged to exchange the video signals in the form of analog video signals. When analog video signals are used, the exchange of video signals with external video apparatuses is not limited to apparatuses adapted to a specific protocol for the exchange of digital video signals. Thus, it is not needed to have specific software drivers for different digital protocols in the communications device in order to communicate with a camera or a display unit. Any digital or analog camera, video recorder or video display unit can be used as an accessory to the communications device.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

A live video stream captured by an on-device camera is displayed on a screen with an overlaid guideline. Video frames of the live video stream are analyzed for a video frame with acceptable quality. A text region is identified in the video frame approximate to the on-screen guideline and cropped from the video frame. The cropped image is transmitted to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, which processes the cropped image and generates text in an editable symbolic form (the OCR'ed text). A confidence score is determined for the OCR'ed text and compared with a threshold value. If the confidence score exceeds the threshold value, the OCR'ed text is outputted.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Cameras are installed at the front, right, left, and back side of a vehicle, and two feature points are located at each of the common field of view areas between the front-right cameras, front-left cameras, back-right cameras, and back-left cameras. A camera calibration device includes a parameter extraction unit for extracting transformation parameters for projecting each camera's captured image on the ground and synthesizing them. After transformation parameters for the left and right cameras are obtained by a perspective projection transformation, transformation parameters for the front and back cameras are obtained by a planar projective transformation so as to accommodate transformation parameters for the front and back cameras with the transformation parameters for the left and right cameras.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. For example, some arrangements enable discovery of both audio and visual content, without any user requirement to switch modes. Other technologies involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

An imaging device includes: a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity are arranged in an array and which converts light transmitted through the pixel into an electric signal, wherein in the pixel array part, among a first color filter pixel, a second color filter pixel, and a third color filter pixel, each including a color filter, at least a plurality of the first color filter pixels and the second color filter pixels is arranged in an oblique pixel array system, and a clear pixel having a high transmittance is arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column in the oblique pixel array with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel.

A system and method to customize and present an augmented reality environment featuring customized content: image(s), video, audio or combination thereof. A digital interface provides tools to empower users to create an augmented reality scene to be provided to other viewers. A viewer's client device launches an application and points the camera of the device at a graphic element (marker). The marker may be on printed media including an invitation or card. The marker may also be displayed digitally. The marker either has a unique access code built-in or it may have a separate access code inputted by the viewer. This code identifies the original creator's content. The device camera recognizes the marker to establish the position of the client device relative to the marker. The client device displays the augmented reality environment and content which is interactive as the viewer points and moves their device relative to the marker.

Smart home perception and control system. The system builds an embedded platform with DSP chip as the core, connects with a large number of sensors, collects temperature and humidity, smoke concentration and noise, as well as human body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and other health conditions. The system uses wireless radio frequency modules to wirelessly control specific home appliances in the family, connects to the network data cloud through home broadband or 3G communication, captures images through analog cameras, processes the collected information on the DSP platform, and responds accordingly according to the results. This system can intelligently control the work of home appliances according to the statistical rules of the owner's life, and can automatically control the opening and closing of the door according to the situation in front of the door; it can automatically sense the abnormal situation of the home and automatically alarm; Information, to achieve remote control, or stay at home, so that doctors can check their own health status through the network data cloud thousands of miles away.

Mobile devices typically have some form of audio capabilities designed to be operated by the device's user, for example to place phone calls; however, if a device is misplaced or stolen, the user may wish to operate those audio capabilities remotely. Methods are provided for detecting that a security event has occurred on a portable electronic device and then establishing an audio transmission between the device and one or more clients, and in some embodiments, sending a command to initiate the audio transmission. The detection of a security event may be based on, for example, detecting that the device has been turned on, detecting movement of the device, detecting that an incorrect password has been entered, the device camera has been used, contacts have been added or deleted, the SIM card as been removed or replaced, application programs have been installed or uninstalled from the device, or uncharacteristic behavior has been detected.

The invention discloses a binocular vision positioning and three-dimensional mapping method for an indoor mobile robot. A binocular vision positioning and three-dimensional mapping system for the indoor mobile robot is mainly composed of a two-wheeled mobile robot platform, an odometer module, an analog camera, an FPGA core module, an image acquisition module, a wireless communication module, a storage module, a USB module and a remote data processing host computer. The FPGA core module controls the image acquisition module to collect information of a left image and a right image and sends the information of the left image and the right image to the remote data processing host computer. Distance information between images and the robot is obtained on the remote data processing host computer according to the information of the left image and the right image in a fast belief propagation algorithm, a three-dimensional environmental map is established in the remote data processing host computer, recognition of a specific marker is realized in an improved SIFT algorithm, and then the position of the mobile robot is determined through information integration in a particle filter algorithm. The binocular vision positioning and three-dimensional mapping system is compact in structure and capable of having access to an intelligent space system so that the indoor mobile robot can detect the environment in real time and provide more and accurate services according to the corresponding position information at the same time.

The invention provides a variable-focus monocular and binocular vision sensing device comprising a mirror image type optical system, a high-precision bearing holder, an image acquisition system, a digital information processing device and other parts. The variable-focus monocular and binocular vision sensing device can guarantee that a variable-focus image sensor (a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) or an analog video camera) mounted on the high-precision bearing holder can be accurately located at a certain required monocular vision preset station, and can automatically regulate the focus to the required value so as to perform monocular vision measurement or guidance work; the variable-focus monocular and binocular vision sensing device also can accurately locate the image sensor at the unique determined binocular vision preset station, and can automatically regulate focus to the required value, and thus, the image sensor and the mirror image type optical system jointly form a binocular vision sensing system, and sequentially, the function of binocular vision guidance or measurement is realized; and moreover, the variable-focus monocular and binocular vision sensing device can realize automatic switching between a monocular vision station and a binocular vision station through programming of the digital information processing device according to the task requirements, so as to realize the functions such as monocular and binocular vision measurement, guidance or obstacle avoidance.

The invention relates to a method of acquiring simulated autostereoscopic video images of a scene to be viewed. On the basis of stored data containing three-dimensional information, it implements n simulated cameras, with n>=3, each generating an image of a scene on a given optical axis. The optical axes of the simulated cameras converge at a point situated at the same distance D from the simulated cameras. The scene to be viewed has a nearest point Pp and a farthest point Pe, and the inter-camera distance and the distance Dmin between the simulated cameras and the nearest point Pp are selected in such a manner that for focus varying between the nearest point Pp and the farthest point Pe the angle 2alpha between two adjacent simulated cameras varies between a value not greater than 4.5° for the point Pp and a value not less than 0.2° for the point Pe.

Camera systems are presented that can utilize geographical information to detect and avoid flicker conditions caused by fluorescent lighting automatically. The camera systems are configured to work in conjunction with signals from wireless communication networks or the GPS system.

The invention provides a live broadcast interaction method, apparatus and system. The method comprises the following steps: a connection between a first client and a second client is established through microphone connection, and a first interaction scene and a second interaction scene in a microphone connection direct broadcasting room are displayed; a server obtains target data corresponding toa virtual gift after receiving an instruction of giving the virtual gift to the first client, and sends the target data to a target client, wherein the target client is the first client and / or the second client, and the virtual gift is displayed in at least one interaction scene; and the target client obtains an image frame collected by a device camera where the target client is located, identifies feature data and determines whether the feature data are matched with the target data, so that the clients in the microphone connection direct broadcasting room update the first interaction scene and / or the second interaction scene according to a matching result and interaction rules. The scheme provided by the invention aims at improving the interactivity in live broadcast.

The invention discloses a LoRa-based remote pig house environment multi-parameter measurement and control system and a LoRa-based remote pig house environment multi-parameter measurement and control method thereof. The LoRa-based remote pig house environment multi-parameter measurement and control system comprises a LoRa terminal, an aggregation node and a pig house group master server, wherein the LoRa terminal comprises a data acquisition module, a power supply module, a controller module, an execution device and a camera module; the aggregation node comprises a LoRa module and a GPRS module; the pig house group master server comprises an on-site monitoring computer, a database module and a functional module; the data acquisition module, the power supply module and the execution device are connected with the controller module, the controller module is connected with the LoRa module via a wireless network, and the GPRS module is connected with the remote master server via an Ethernet.The functional module of the system is capable of displaying pig house on-site videos and environmental parameter values of corresponding points, so that a farmer can log into a website to check theon-site condition of a pig house remotely, thereby realizing intelligent farming. The LoRa-based remote pig house environment multi-parameter measurement and control system and the LoRa-based remote pig house environment multi-parameter measurement and control method combined with a LoRa wireless technology can realize the function of acquiring data of a plurality of terminals and simple networking, are suitable for environment monitoring of livestock breeding farms and have the advantages of remote data acquisition and low power consumption.

An apparatus that includes a surgical telescopic device having a distal end and a proximal end; a camera coupled to the proximal end of the surgical telescopic device; and a holographic notch filter interposed between the camera and the proximal end of the surgical telescopic device. The camera preferably is a charge-coupled-device camera ("CCD camera"). The apparatus may also include a focusing lens or an alternative type of filter such as a long-pass filter or an infrared filter. The surgical telescopic device may be used by illuminating the material with non-white light and detecting the emitted fluorescence, phosphorescence or luminescence.

A method for producing video simulations uses two-dimensional HDR images and LIDAR optical sensor data to deliver a photo-realistic simulated sporting event experience to a display. The playing environment is mapped using a data collection process that includes contour mapping the environment, photographing the environment, and associating the images with the contour mapping data. Preferably, the HDR camera is used in conjunction with a differential global positioning system that records the position and heading of the camera when the photo is taken. A polygon mesh is obtained from the contour data, and each image is projected onto a backdrop from the perspective of a simulated camera to create a set, which is then stored in a set database. The simulated environment is created by selecting the set needed for the simulation and incorporating simulation elements into the set before rendering the simulated camera's view to the display.

The invention relates to improvement of photographing methods, and provides a method for taking a photo by utilizing a gesture. By means of the method, a gesture is only adopted to complete selection of a photographing area and photographing. According to the technical scheme, the method for photographing by utilizing the gesture comprises the following steps of 1, utilizing the gesture to select a photographing area in a framing mode; 2, utilizing a photographing device camera lens to obtain a gesture image and identifying the hand and a gesture movement through an image identifying module; 3, enabling the image judging module to compare and judge the gesture movement and gesture information stored in advance; 4 if the gesture movement accords with the gesture information stored in advance, enabling the photographing device to photograph the gesture frame-selection photographing area.

The invention discloses a video monitoring system fault self-detection and self-recovery control system and a method. The system includes a device layer, an access layer, a service layer, an interface layer, and a business layer. The device layer is composed of a terminal control box, a DVR, an NVR, a network camera, an analog camera, and a matrix. The access layer implements video stream access and video stream data interaction of the device layer based on a C+ + program. The service layer is used for processing and analyzing video data streams and storing and forwarding the detection result. The business layer is used for viewing alarm information. The problem that the conventional video monitoring device cannot monitor the operation or fault state of devices, bears high maintaining and addressing workload, and can hardly judge a fault is solved. The operation or fault state of each device in the whole system can be displayed, recorded and prompted in real time. Safe and stable operation of the system is ensured, the state can be monitored, and a fault point can be judged. The workload and difficulty of system device maintenance are reduced.

The invention discloses a flame and dense smoke detection method based on YOLOv3. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a flame data set and a dense smoke data set; enhancing data ina random horizontal overturning, cutting and rotating mode; respectively training a flame model and a dense smoke model by using a YOLOv3 algorithm, and fusing the flame model and the dense smoke model into a final model; in an existing video monitoring system, adding a flame and smoke detection module; acquiring a monitoring scene video in real time based on a camera of a video monitoring system,and extracting an image frame from the video based on an ffmpeg framework; detecting each frame of image by adopting a fusion detection model, determining whether flames and dense smoke exist in theimages or not, and marking the positions of the flames and the dense smoke; when a fire is detected, giving an alarm automatically, linking automatic fire-fighting equipment wherein a camera providesreal-time monitoring. According to the invention, effective fire monitoring and danger early warning of important places can be realized; and the invention has the advantages of no dependence on manual characteristics, low detection cost, high detection speed, high accuracy and the like.

Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. For example, some arrangements enable discovery of both audio and visual content, without any user requirement to switch modes. Other technologies involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.