2777 results about "Field angle" patented technology

At least one antenna array including three mutually orthogonal antennas each sharing a common center point senses an electromagnetic signal emitted by a buried object such as a utility line, pipe or sonde. A circuit at least partially mounted in a housing is connected to the array and determines a location of the buried object by measuring signal strength and field angles in three dimensions without having to align the antenna array relative to the buried object while eliminating nulls and false peaks. A graphical user interface (GUI) has user-friendly icons, symbols, menus, numbers and graphical and auditory representation of signal strength. A SEARCH view indicates signal strength by showing a rotating strength indicator, a trace mode MAP view in which line location is shown by a line that moves side-to-side, and a sonde mode MAP view in which sonde location is shown by a moving line, pole and equator.

A method for capturing a digital panoramic image includes projecting a panorama onto an image sensor by means of a panoramic objective lens. The panoramic objective lens has a distribution function of the image points that is not linear relative to the field angle of the object points of the panorama, such that at least one zone of the image obtained is expanded while at least another zone of the image is compressed. When a panoramic image obtained is then displayed, correcting the non-linearity of the initial image is required and is performed by means of a reciprocal function of the non-linear distribution function of the objective lens or by means of the non-linear distribution function.

A diffractive optical element for guiding a light having a color spectrum characterized by a plurality of wavelengths longer than a shortest wavelength, lambdaB, and shorter than a longest wavelength, lambdaR, the light striking the diffractive optical element at an angle greater than a first field-of-view angle, alpha<->FOV, and smaller than a second field-of-view angle, alpha<+>FOV. The diffractive optical element comprising a linear grating being formed in a light-transmissive substrate. The linear grating is characterized by a pitch, d, selected so as to allow total internal reflection of a light having wavelength of lambdaB and a striking angle of alpha<->FOV. The light-transmissive substrate is characterized by an index of refraction, ns, larger than a minimal index of refraction, nMIN, which is selected so as to allow total internal reflection of a light having wavelength of lambdaR and a striking angle of alpha<+>FOV.

The present invention relates to a driving method of a liquid crystal display device using an OCB (optically compensated birefringence) which realizes a wide view-field angle and high-speed response, and has an object of providing a driving method of a liquid crystal display device which method causes an OCB cell to transfer from a splay orientation state to a bend orientation state in short time. In a driving method of a liquid crystal display device using an OCB cell, gate on / off periods of a TFT are controlled at a start of a display operation, each pixel is caused to have bend orientation by a strong electric field that is generated between a gate electrode and a common electrode, and, at the same time, a voltage that is higher than that to generate an electric field necessary to maintain bend orientation is applied between a display electrode and the common electrode, to thereby effect transfer to bend orientation in short time.

A head-mounted camera of the present invention includes the following elements. A first image pickup device includes a first photographing optical system that can change the focal distance and a CCD for converting a subject image formed by the first photographing optical system into an image signal. A see-through image display portion displays a photographic frame indicating the photographic range as a virtual image so that it is superimposed on a subject substantially directly observed by a photographer. A remote controller includes a second operation switch for setting the visual angle of the photographic frame when viewed from the photographer. A controller / recorder includes a first CPU for setting the focal distance of the first photographing optical system so that the visual angle of the photographic frame set by the second operation switch coincides with the field angle of the first image pickup device.

A fisheye lens with a field angle of at least one hundred sixty degrees is formed of two lens groups, arranged in order from the object side, as follows: a first lens group having negative refractive power and a second lens group having positive refractive power. The first lens group includes, arranged in order from the object side, two lens elements, each having negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with the convex surface on the object side, a lens element having negative refractive power with a concave surface on the image side, and two lens elements of opposite refractive powers. The second lens group includes, arranged in order from the object side, two lens elements of opposite refractive powers, a stop, and two lens elements of opposite refractive powers. The fisheye lens preferably satisfies specified conditions related to spacings of lens surfaces and to distortion characteristics of the fisheye lens.

The invention provides a zoom lens system which achieves a wide angle of field, has a simplified construction, and is suitable for use on video cameras. The zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group G1 having positive refracting power, a second lens group G2 having negative refracting power, a third lens group G3 having positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refracting power. The second lens group G2 moves toward an image side thereof while the third G3 and fourth G4 lens groups move constantly toward the object side for zooming from a wide-angle end thereof to a telephoto end thereof. The first lens group G1 consists only of a positive single lens.

A system designs a thin and relatively flat microwave focusing lens that can produce multiple simultaneous beams, using readily-available isotropic dielectric materials, and having a gradient-index (GRIN) profile. The design optimizes the lens to achieve beam scanning and / or multiple beams over a wide field of regard (FOR) with broad bandwidth and a very short focal length compared with conventional lenses. The lens can be used individually or as an element in a more complex antenna having multiple lenses in various orientations that are independently switched, selected and / or excited simultaneously as elements in a phased array. The antenna terminal incorporates such lens into an array of lenses along with one or more feeds to produce single or multiple beams covering a broad field of regard for such applications as satellite communications on-the-move, cellular, broadband point-point or point-multipoint and other terrestrial or satellite communications systems. The lens and array design support multiple simultaneous independently steerable beams as well as null placement for interference cancellation.

A display apparatus and an imaging apparatus constructed such that a high-resolution clear three-dimensional video image can be viewed from any direction. The display apparatus projects frame images, projected from a projector such as an electronic projector, to a video image projection surface of a three-dimensional screen through a polygonal mirror provided around the three-dimensional screen, thereby providing a polyhedral video image such as a three-dimensional image to a person viewing from around the video image projection surface. The three-dimensional screen has a view field angle limiting filter and a directional reflection screen. The view field angle filter limits the angle of a view field in the left / right direction, the angle being the angle of the projection on the video image projection surface (50) of the screen. The directional reflection screen has two sheets in horizontal and vertical directions. Furthermore, a projection light path between the electronic projector and the polygonal mirror is formed by refracting light through an auxiliary mirror.

At least one antenna array including three mutually orthogonal antennas each sharing a common center point senses an electromagnetic signal emitted by a buried object such as a utility line, pipe or sonde. A circuit at least partially mounted in a housing is connected to the array and determines a location of the buried object by measuring signal strength and field angles in three dimensions without having to align the antenna array relative to the buried object while eliminating nulls and false peaks. A graphical user interface (GUI) has user-friendly icons, symbols, menus, numbers and graphical and auditory representation of signal strength. A plurality of different underground objects can be simultaneously detected and their different locations can be simultaneously indicated to a user via audible sounds and / or visual images on a display.

The invention is a video frequency real-time displaying control device for infrared heat imaging image and visible image. The device includes a computer, an infrared heat imaging device, visible camera whose field angle can match with it; there has a video collecting card on the interface slot of the computer, the infrared image device and the visible camera are fixed on the same platform; there stores control, temperature measuring, image processing and displaying procedure model, it can remote control the platform, the infrared heat device and the visible light camera, they can be rotated synchronously, the field angles of the posterior two match, and makes the heat imaging image and the visible light image can coincided with the coordinate of the computer monitor. The invention can carry on real-time memorization, displaying, imaging, and playbacks the heat imaging image and the visible light image, it also can display the temperature valve and position coordinates of the object, it also has merits of infrared imaging and visible light image.

The invention relates to a short-distance optical magnification module group and a near-to-eye display optical module group using the same and aims at providing an optical magnification module group for realizing high-multiple magnification at a short distance less than 5cm and a near-to-eye display optical module group using the optical magnification module group to realize an extra-large field angle at a short distance less than 3cm. According to the invention, the near-to-eye display optical module group includes a first 45-degree phase delay plate (2), a partial-transmission partial-reflection curve-surface lens (4), a second 45-degree phase delay plate (5) and a reflective polarizing plate (6). In addition, the near-to-eye display optical module group includes a display screen (1) arranged at one side, far away from the partial-transmission partial-reflection curve-surface lens (4), of the first 45-degree phase delay plate (2).

The invention provides a conjugated narrow-band tri-phosphor staggered volume holographic grating waveguide near-to-eye optical display device. The device comprises an image display light source which is used for providing image information to be viewed, a P&S photo-conversion component which is used for converting P light and S light, a collimating lens group which is used for collimating light wave, a PBS component which is used for the polarizing beam-splitting of light wave, a beam-splitting selecting component which is used for uniformly spreading the light wave on a coupling input surface; a conjugated tri-phosphor staggered coupling input volume holographic grating which is used for dispersing incident ray and totally reflecting and transmitting the ray inside the substrate, a light-guide transmitting substrate which is used for totally reflecting and transmitting the light wave, and a conjugated tri-phosphor staggered coupling output volume holographic grating which is used for coupling the dispersed incident ray in sequence and outputting the ray to the outside of the substrate. The device has the advantages of full color, ultra-thinness, large field angle and simplicity in process and implementation, and can be applied to the damage-free display of a mobile screen, the display of a terminal, the scene teaching instruction for a doctor, the real-time information positioning for fire fighting, 3D game and other fields.

An image pickup unit which consists of an objective optical system and a solid-state image pickup device: the objective optical system being composed of a first negative lens unit comprising a first meniscus lens element having a convex surface on the object side and negative power, a second positive lens unit comprising a convex lens element and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens unit and the second lens unit and this image pickup unit having a small outside diameter, allowing a field angle to be changed little due to variations of parts and an assembling variation, and having a maximum field angle of 150° or larger.

The invention discloses a method for taking photos through different field angle cameras and a terminal to acquire high-quality photos. The method comprises the steps that the imaging amplifying multiple required by a user at present is judged, one camera in the different field angle cameras is started to carry out shooting according to the relation between the imaging amplifying multiple required by the user at present and the multiple threshold, and the taken photos are output after digital zoom is carried out. According to the method, one camera in the different field angle cameras is started to carry out shooting according to the relation between the imaging amplifying multiple required by the user at present and the multiple threshold, and then digital zoom is carried out on the taken photos. Due to the fact that the field angles of the cameras are different and the obtained photos are different in definition, when the different field angle cameras are selected to take photos according to the difference of the photo amplifying multiple of the user, the photos are good in photo quality, and the high-quality photos can be obtained.

The invention provides a diopter-adjustable curved surface waveguide near-to-eye optical display device which comprises an image display light source used for providing image information used for observation, a collimating lens set used for collimating optical waves, a PBS (polarization beam-splitting) assembly used for performing polarization beam-splitting on the optical waves, a P&S photo-conversion assembly used for realizing conversion of P light and S light, a P&S beam-splitting selection assembly capable of enabling the optical waves to uniformly cover a coupling input surface, a micro-curved surface waveguide substrate used for performing total-reflection propagation on the optical waves, and a micro-local curvature coupling output surface used for enabling the transmitted optical waves to be coupled and output out of the substrate, expanding a view field angle and adjusting the diopter. The diopter-adjustable curved surface waveguide near-to-eye optical display device has the advantages of adjustable diopter, lightweight, thinness, large view field angle, simplicity for processing and design, easiness for realization, compact structure and high energy utilization rate of an image source, can be used in various fields of remote medical information teaching, virtual reality simulation training, fire rescue information positioning guidance, road enhancement display and the like, and can be used as a display of a terminal.

At least one antenna array including three mutually orthogonal antennas each sharing a common center point senses an electromagnetic signal emitted by a buried object such as a utility line, pipe or sonde. A circuit at least partially mounted in a housing is connected to the array and determines a location of the buried object by measuring signal strength and field angles in three dimensions without having to align the antenna array relative to the buried object while eliminating nulls and false peaks. A graphical user interface (GUI) has user-friendly icons, symbols, menus, numbers and graphical and auditory representation of signal strength. A SEARCH view indicates signal strength by showing a rotating strength indicator, a trace mode MAP view in which line location is shown by a line that moves side-to-side, and a sonde mode MAP view in which sonde location is shown by a moving line, pole and equator.

The invention discloses a depth extraction method based on monocular vision. The method comprises: 1, demarcating the camera of a phone to obtain the inner parameters and image resolution of the camera; 2, establishing a depth extraction model described in the descripton; 3, acquiring the pixel value u, v of the target point through image acquisition of the target to be measured; 4, calculating the depth value of the object to be measured on the image by using the camera internal parameter and the pixel value of the object point obtained in the step 1 and combining with the camera depth extraction model. The depth extraction method based on monocular vision of the invention can be applied to cameras with different parameters such as field angle, focal length, image resolution, etc. to improve ranging accuracy and provide support for object measurement in machine vision and three-dimensional reconstruction of real scene.

In a camera unit, a lens system may be configured by a first lens group (wide-angle lens system) whose a field angle in a horizontal direction is 120 degrees or more, a second lens group (anamorphic lens system) whose anamorphic ratio is 1.5 or more, and a third lens group (image-forming lens system). A lens system may be configured so that the amount of change in image height with respect to a change of an image angle is made larger at the peripheral parts than at the center portion of a formed image.

A method and a device for airborne laser scanning flying height change real-time compensation can eliminate adverse effect of flying height change to a laser scanning point cloud distribution area and cloud density of a laser scanning point. When the flying height of an airborne platform is changed, a flying height change value is acquired by a global position system(GPS) / inertial navigation system(INS)integrated measurement device, the value of a scan field angle which can keep the width of a scanning stripe unchanged and the value of a laser pulse frequency which can keep the laser scanning point cloud density unchanged are calculated in a flying height compensation controller. A rotating prism photoelectric shaft angle encoder measures and obtains a real time rotating angle of a rotating prism and offers the real time rotating angle of the rotating prism to the flying height compensation controller, a square signal which is identical with an expect laser pulse frequency value is outputted only within a scope of the required scan field angle and offered to a laser pulse transmitter, thus a laser transmitter can launch a laser pulse of the corresponding frequency. By using the compensation method, the flying height change of the airborne platform can not affect the laser scanning point cloud distribution area and cloud density of a laser scanning point permanently.

Visual-field information including information on sight-line direction (theta, phi) and on field angle (gamma) in visual-field area of input fish-eye image is input in real-time. From the input visual-field information, a drawing area of a plane is calculated in real-time that is orthogonal to the sight-line direction and has an extent determined by the field angle. A pixel position in the fish-eye image that corresponds to each pixel position in the calculated drawing area is determined. This forms in real-time a dewarped image from the fish-eye image with its distortion removed.

The invention discloses a camera lens. From the object side to the image side, the camera lens sequentially comprises a first lens with positive refraction power a convex object side surface, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fourth lens with a concave object side surface, a fifth lens with positive refraction power, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens with negative refraction power; the camera lens also comprises a diaphragm arranged between an object to be shot and a second lens. The camera lens meets relation expressions of TTL / Img H<2.4 and 1.5<CTl / CT2<4, wherein TTL is the total length of the camera lens, Img H is a half of the diameter of the effective pixel area of the camera lens on an imaging surface, CT1 is the central thickness of the first lens, and CT2 is the central thickness of the second lens. Meeting the expressions above, the camera lens has the advantages of wide field angle (wide angle), miniaturization, high imaging quality and the like.

A light emitting diode system includes a housing including a light emission opening and a light emitting diode disposed within the housing. A first film layer covers the light emission opening and includes a uniaxial collimating film configured to direct light from the light emitting diode along a first axis.

A flat wide-angle lens system of the invention has a reduced axial length and is intended for creating images with extremely wide angle of observation. The system consists of the first component which is intended for reduction of the field angle of light incidence onto the objective and comprises an assembly of at least two microlens arrays with the same pitch between the adjacent microlenses and arranged with respect to each other so as to provide afocality, and a second component that comprises an assembly of conventional spherical or aspherical microlenses that create an image on an image receiver. Each two coaxial microlenses of the microlens arrays of the first component form an inverted microtelescope of Galileo. The outlet aperture of a single microtelescope is made so that spherical aberration can be minimized almost to 0, while field aberrations can be corrected by design parameters of the microlenses.

The invention discloses a super wide-angle lens, which, from an object side to an image side, successively comprises a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, fifth lens having negative refractive power and a sixth lens having positive refractive power, wherein the object side of the second lens is a convex surface and the image side of the second lens is a concave surface, the object side of the third lens is a convex surface, and the image side of the sixth lens which is close to the axis is a concave surface. The super wide-angle lens satisfies the following relation: the absolute value of tan (HFOV) / TTL>0.9; and -2.0& absolute value of t;f1 / f<0, wherein the HFOV is half of the biggest vision field angle of the super wide-angle lens, TTL is the overall length of the super wide-angle lens, f1 is the effective focal length of the first lens, and the f is the effective focal length of the super wide-angle lens. The super wide-angle lens can improve the vision field angle while guaranteeing the miniaturization, realizes the characteristics of the wide angle, corrects various image differences and improves the image quality.

The invention provides a robot automatic charging method and system and relates to the technical field of robots. The method comprises steps that a planar map of a robot movement area is established, and positions of charging piles are labeled on the planar map; the current position of a robot on the planar map is obtained, a path is planned according to the current position of the robot and the positions of the charging piles on the planar map, and the robot is enabled to move toward a charging pile according to the planned path; when the charging pile appears in a field angle of a top camera of the robot, the robot detects a vision positioning identifier on the charging pile via the camera, and orientation information of the robot relative to the charging pile is calculated according to the detected vision positioning identifier; the robot automatically adjusts the position and angle according to the orientation information until a charging slot in the bottom of the robot is fully matched with a contact point of the charging pile. The invention enables the robot to rapidly and accurately position the position of the charging pile, and improves the robot automatic charging efficiency.

The invention discloses a head up display device based on laser holographic projection imaging, and the head up display device based on laser holographic projection imaging belongs to the field of auxiliary display. The head up display device based on laser holographic projection imaging mainly comprises a light source system, an image processing system, a spatial light modulation module and an optical light path system. First, the image processing system receives to-be-displayed content through a data interface and transforms the content into a hologram form through a hologram conversion algorithm, or selects the to-be-displayed hologram stored in the system to perform simple arithmetic processing according to external inputted information, or directly outputs and displays on the spatial light modulation module; second, one (monochromatic) or a plurality of (chromatic) laser beams are emitted on the spatial light modulation module, and an original image is formed through diffraction in front of the spatial light modulation module; and last, the optical light path system is used for magnifying the imaged restored through diffraction to increase the field angle of the image. The head up display device based on laser holographic projection imaging can realize real-time dynamic adjustment of imaging distance, and the brightness of the displayed content can be changed in real time according to the ratio of the projection content area to the total projection area.

It is sought to provide an indicator lamp, which is excellent not only in short distance visual recognition property but also in long distance one, as well as being further excellent in sight field angle property. An indicator lamp comprising a light-emitting element 1 and a light-emitting element lens 2 having a light-emitting element mounting cavity 3 form at the bottom is disposed, in which the light-emitting element disposed in the cavity 3 emits light to be fully reflected by the peripheral surface of the lens 1 and proceeds as emission light flux forwardly of the lens 1. The slope angle of the peripheral surface with respect to the lens axis is reduced progressively from the bottom toward the lens front surface 5 in three stages, thus forming circumferential corners 7 and 8 as boundaries between adjacent ones of the three stages. The circumferential corners scatter light emitted from the light emitting element 2 to provide concentric emission light fluxes as viewed from the side of the lens front.

The present embodiments provide methods and systems to homogenize illumination on a target. Some embodiments provide rotational symmetric dual-reflector solar concentrators that include a concave primary reflector with an aim-direction directed toward the sun to receive optical radiation in a far-field angle within an angle of acceptance and redirect radiation upward and centrally generating flux concentration, a secondary reflector positioned coaxial with said primary reflector to receive said redirected radiation and redirect radiation downward and centrally generating flux concentration solar rays, and a central target zone receiving said concentrated solar rays, where cross sections of said primary and secondary reflectors both further comprise a multiplicity of segments that establish a correspondence between pairs of segments, each of said segments of said primary reflector such as to image said angle of acceptance onto said corresponding segment of said secondary reflector to image onto said target zone.