130 results about "Panoramic photography" patented technology

An apparatus may take a panoramic photograph without the need to set the order in which panoramic images. The method includes taking a reference image that is a portion of the panoramic photograph, generating a plurality of guide images using portions of the reference image, detecting movement of an image-taking device and displaying a guide image selected according to the detected movement of the image-taking device, and taking a connected image to be stitched to the most recently taken reference image using the guide image.

The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.

The invention relates to an imaging device and provides a borehole imaging device. According to the borehole imaging device, panoramic photography of a borehole can be achieved with a borehole imager probe of a built-in three-dimensional compass, a continuous and complete plane development and a continuous and a complete three-dimensional histogram of a borehole wall fracture can be obtained, and the accuracy of a measured borehole fracture spatial occurrence can be improved. According to the technical scheme aiming to solve the technical problems, the borehole imaging device comprises a borehole imager body, the borehole imager probe, a depth counter, a probe pushing rod, a centering device and a data processor, the three-dimensional compass is arranged in the borehole imager probe, the borehole imager body is connected with the depth counter and the data processor, the centering device is arranged on the top of the borehole imager probe, the probe pushing rod is arranged on the bottom of the borehole imager probe, and the borehole imager probe is connected with the depth counter. The borehole imaging device can achieve panoramic photography and is suitable for being used for detecting the borehole fracture spatial occurrence.

The disclosure pertains to devices, methods, and computer readable media for performing positional sensor-assisted panoramic photography techniques in handheld personal electronic devices. Generalized steps that may be used to carry out the panoramic photography techniques described herein include, but are not necessarily limited to: 1.) acquiring image data from the electronic device's image sensor; 2.) performing 'motion filtering' on the acquired image data, e.g., using information returned from positional sensors of the electronic device to inform the processing of the image data; 3.) performing image registration between adjacent captured images; 4.) performing geometric corrections on captured image data, e.g., due to perspective changes and/or camera rotation about a non-center of perspective (COP) camera point; and 5.) 'stitching' the captured images together to create the panoramic scene, e.g., blending the image data in the overlap area between adjacent captured images. The resultant stitched panoramic image may be cropped before final storage.

The invention relates to a project environment display method. The method comprises performing three-dimensional modeling and rendering on a project to build three-dimensional panoramic images; meanwhile, performing panoramic photographing on existing surroundings of the project to make live-action three-dimensional panoramic data; then integrating the three-dimensional panoramic images and the live-action three-dimensional panoramic data onto an electronic map, and performing web publishing on the basis of browser software. The project environment display method can display a project under planning or under construction on Internet without downloading three-dimensional plug-ins to achieving publicity and promotion. The project environment display method can be widely applied to projects such as real estate buildings, constructional decoration, industrial parks and exhibitions to perform commercial promotion, investment attracting, environment show and the like.

An aerial photography apparatus that comprises a remote controlled piloted aircraft, a platform, a camera, and a remote wireless transmitter for operating and controlling the apparatus. The remote controlled piloted aircraft is attached to the top side of the platform. The camera is attached to the bottom side of the platform using a rigid member having a rotatable joint. The remote controlled piloted aircraft lifts and moves the apparatus to a desired location at a specific altitude above a particular property where the panoramic aerial photograph is to be taken. Depending upon the wind forces exerted upon the remote controlled piloted aircraft and the resulting orientation of the aircraft to maintain the camera at the desired location, the rotatable joint enables the gravitational weight of the camera to naturally gravitate to a vertical orientation or position relative to the ground. Alternatively, cushions in the platform or a suspension system may be used to achieve this position for the camera. A counterbalance weight is provided on the camera to counter the weight of the lens for maintaining the camera in a level balance while rotating through the three hundred and sixty degree rotation when creating the desired panoramic aerial photograph

The invention relates to an aerial seamless virtual roaming system constructing method. The aerial seamless virtual roaming system constructing method comprises the following steps of aerial photography sampling point arrangement, aerial photography image acquisition, sequence panoramic image generation, aerial panoramic image demarcation, ground scene expression, navigation route specification, scene rendering and seamless roaming. According to the aerial seamless virtual roaming system constructing method, an image-based rendering technique is adopted, and therefore, rigorous requirements of a huge amount of data in 3D reconstruction, for system hardware, can be avoided; sampling points of aerial panoramic photography are reasonably arranged, and therefore, it can be ensured that as many ground scenes as possible can be obtained with as less sampling data as possible adopted, and therefore, seamless immersive virtual roaming of navigation routes can be specified arbitrarily without constraints.

According to this invention, an electronic photographing device in which image information corresponding to one set of images photographed by panoramic photographing can be recorded on a recording medium includes: a rotation direction setting device for setting information corresponding to a rotating direction panoramic of the electronic photographing device in the panorama photographing; a rotating direction recording device for recording information corresponding to the rotation direction set by the rotation direction setting device on the recording medium; a control device for controlling an arrangement of the set of panoramic images on the basis of the information corresponding to the rotation direction recorded on the recording medium; a display device for displaying editing information for performing predetermined image editing to the panoramic images arranged by the control device; and a control device for performing a predetermined editing operation on the basis of the editing information displayed on the display device.

The invention discloses a rotational-free panoramic photography device and a monitoring system comprising same, comprising a video electronic switching control plate and cameras. The video electronic switching control plate comprises a central processing unit, a control code separation and overlapping unit, a video switching unit and a video synchronization signal separation unit; and the rotational-free panoramic photography device adopts N cameras, shoots N intervals formed by dividing a monitored 360-degree panoramic space, the N is greater than or equal to 2, and the monitoring system adopting the rotational-free panoramic photography device transmits a control code and N paths of video images on the same video transmission line by a time-sharing transmission technique. The invention needs no motor to mechanically control the cameras, prolongs the service life of the photography device, reduces the power consumption and the wiring cost of the photography device and does not lose the quality of the video images. The invention can realize the integration of theft prevention and video monitoring by adding a motor control unit and a warning access unit.

The present invention discloses one kind of 180 deg large view field annular panoramic staring image method. It adopts cylindrical plane projection method, twice reflecting annular lens for the first imaging to realize the annular panoramic staring imaging, relay lens for the second imaging to obtain real image, planar photoelectronic imaging device receiving and displaying 3D panoramic staring image with infinite field depth. The present invention has the advantages of large view field of 180 deg, no motion part, small size, light structure, infinite field depth and no need of focusing to form clear image, and may be used in panoramic machine vision, tunnel and pipe inner wall detection, medical endoscopic imagig, bank safety monitoring, panoramic 360 deg photography, etc.

A panorama photography method and apparatus is provided to inform a use of an optimum photographing position for the next photograph when capturing in succession several adjacent photographs to obtain a combined panorama photograph. In the method, after a first image is captured, a guide image is generated from a predefined section of the first image, and a first edge is detected in the guide image. A preview image is acquired for a second image to be captured, and a second edge is detected in the preview image. The second edge is obtained from a predefined part of the preview image that coincides with the guide image. Based on comparison between the first and second edges, notification data are generated and outputted together with a synthetic image of the guide image and the preview image.

A software application for an electronic device with an integral or attached vibrator automatically controls activation of the vibrator to induce hands-free controlled rotation of the device. In typical embodiments, the device is a smartphone with a camera, and the application activates the vibrator to cause the device to rotate to a series of angular positions, activates the camera to take a series of photographs at those positions, and stitch together those photographs into a composite panoramic photograph. The application monitors the angular position of the device based on inputs from motion and/or position sensors of the device. In other embodiments, the application automatically activates the vibrator to induce hands-free rotation of the device for other uses such as video-conferencing or gaming. And in other embodiments, the application activates the vibrator to cue manual rotation of the device by the user for panoramic photography or other uses.

The invention provides a mobile terminal with a panoramic photography function and a panorama shooting method. The mobile terminal comprises a camera, a sensor assembly and a processing module. A camera support is arranged on the camera, and the camera support can freely rotate to enable the camera to be adjusted by different angles. The sensor assembly is used for detecting the bending angle of the telescopic camera support. The processing module is used for reminding the bending angle of the camera, and controlling the camera to carry out shooting until the bending angle is matched with a preset bending angle. The manual and intelligent mode is adopted, the shooting angle of the camera support is adjusted, multi-angle and comprehensive shooting is achieved, and a panorama is finally obtained. In addition, in places where a body of the mobile terminal cannot carry out shooting conveniently at short distance, shooting can be achieved easily by stretching, contracting and bending the camera support, and the need of a user for shooting a panorama is met.

An angle sensor 302 in a digital or film camera senses the absolute or differential azimuth angle of the camera. At the time of first image capture, the camera azimuth angle H1 is latched in storage register 304. A constant angle value K degrees is added to this stored angle H1, and the sum is then a target angle value H1+K. As the camera continues to rotate, angle value H is compared in comparator 306 to H1+K, and when substantially equal, a command is generated activating shutter 318 to capture the second image and store the current azimuth angle H2 in storage register 304. An alternative embodiment stores a reference image portion pixel data set from a reference image portion 404 of the first captured image. As the camera rotates, a new pixel data set from a sampled image portion on the opposite side of the field of view is captured every few degrees, and is compared to the stored reference image portion pixel data set. When the camera has rotated such that the sampled image portion pixel data set substantially equals the reference image portion pixel data set, a peak in correlation occurs which generates a shutter activation command to capture the next image in the sequence. At the substantially same time a new reference image portion pixel data set is stored.

A system and method for capturing and displaying seamless cinema-quality 360° panoramic photographic and video images is described. In one embodiment, the panoramic imaging system comprises an image capture unit, a computing unit, a cooling unit, and a panoramic image display unit. The image capture unit includes a panoramic camera assembly which comprises a plurality of cameras evenly distributed upon a base plate about a circle of radius Riens. Each camera has its lens pointed at and aligned with a reflecting mirror positioned at a predetermined angle with respect to the vertical. The reflecting mirrors are arranged about a cylindrical support and are affixed to a top plate. The panoramic camera assembly acquires a plurality of images which are wrapped to form a 360° panoramic image. A specially configured Social Animals Flash player allows a user to view, play, manipulate, and click on the processed 360° image file.

The present invention relates to an improved structure of photographic apparatus, which includes a photographic body including a front side, a backside, and a topside, and a photographic apparatus, which is adapted on the photographic body and includes a base body and a plurality of camera lenses. The base body is pivoted on the photographic body such that the base body has 360-degree rotating capability with respect to the photographic body. The base body has an annular surface for installing the plurality of camera lenses, which is installed at different positions and angles of the annular surface for performing a plurality of photographic operations. In addition, the camera lenses can rotate with the rotation of the base body, and thereby can perform 360-degree successive panoramic photography.

The invention belongs to the technical field of tunnel quality detection and discloses a tunnel detection device based on digital panoramic photography and a detection method thereof. The tunnel detection device based on digital panoramic photography comprises a detection vehicle which runs along the central line of a tunnel, a cone reflector fixed at the center of the front end face of a vehicle head of the detection vehicle, a magnetic compass fixed at the center of the cone reflector, a CCD (charge coupled device) camera fixed at the vehicle head of the detection vehicle, an incremental rotary encoder fixed on a rotating shaft of a rear wheel of the detection vehicle in the sleeving manner and a pulse counter arranged on the detection vehicle, wherein the conical surface of the cone reflector faces the forward direction of the detection vehicle; the CCD camera is positioned in front of the center of the cone reflector; a lens of the CCD camera horizontally faces the cone reflector; the input end of the pulse counter is electrically connected with the incremental rotary encoder; the output end of the pulse counter is electrically connected with the control end of the CCD camera; the CCD camera is electrically connected with an industrial control computer.

This disclosure pertains to devices, methods, and computer readable media for performing panoramic photography processing techniques in handheld personal electronic devices. A few generalized steps may be used to carry out the panoramic photography processing techniques described herein: 1.) acquiring image data from the electronic device's image sensor's image stream; 2.) displaying a scaled preview version of the image data in real-time on the device's display; 3.) performing "motion filtering" on the acquired image data; 4.) generating full-resolution and lower-resolution versions of portions of the images that are not filtered out by the "motion filtering" process; 5.) substantially simultaneously "stitching" both the full-resolution and lower-resolution image portions together to create the panoramic scene; and 6.) substantially simultaneously sending the stitched version of the lower-resolution image portions to a preview region on the device's display and storing the stitched version of the full-resolution image portions to a memory.

A panoramic image is generated from a plurality of source images. A panoramic analysis engine samples a first source image and a second source image included in the plurality of source images to generate a first proxy image and a second proxy image, respectively. The panoramic analysis engine samples inertial measurement information associated the two proxy images. The panoramic analysis engine detects a feature that is present in both the first proxy image and the second proxy image. The panoramic analysis engine blends the second proxy image into the first proxy image based on the inertial measurement information and a first position of the feature within the second proxy image relative to a second position of the feature within the first proxy image to generate a preview image. Finally, the panoramic analysis engine renders the preview image according to a first panoramic mode to generate a first partial display image.

The invention is applicable to the field of photographic technologies, and provides a panoramic photography method and a mobile terminal for implementing the same. The panoramic photography method includes a photo shooting positioning step: shooting wide-angle photos of images required to be shot; a panoramic photo shooting step: shooting panoramic photos of the images in a guidance manner according to photo information of the wide-angle photos. The panoramic photography method and the mobile terminal have the advantage that panoramic photo shooting modes, lens movement speeds and lens movement directions are restrained.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device for processing panoramic photography. The method comprises steps of: acquiring a picture to be processed and a preset coordinate mapping table, wherein the picture to be processed is formed by horizontally splicing at least two original pictures, and a corresponding relation between the coordinates of pixels in the picture to be processed and coordinates of pixels in a panoramic picture is saved in the preset coordinate mapping table; using the pixels in the panoramic picture as target pixels, and determining source pixels, corresponding to the target pixels, in the picture to be processed by using the preset coordinate mapping table; and performing projection by using the source pixels and obtaining the panoramic picture according to a projection result. The method and the device may decrease calculated amount in a processing process and contribute to real-time online processing of the panoramic picture.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method, device, and system for processing panoramic photography. The method comprises steps of: acquiring at least two picture sets generated by at least two corresponding cameras respectively, wherein each picture set comprises at least one picture, the view fields of the at least two cameras may cover a panorama, and the at least two cameras have synchronized imaging parameters; mapping the pixels of the pictures in the at least two picture sets and performing splicing according to superposed areas so as to obtain a panoramic picture; and encoding and compressing the panoramic picture. The method, the device, and the system contribute to a decrease in recourses consumed in a processing process and on-line process the panoramic picture or a panoramic video in real time.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a multi-scale unstructured gigapixel VR panoramic photography system, which comprises a wide field ring camera array, a narrow field ring camera array, an image processing device, a multi-camera image mosaic device and a VR display device. The wide field ring camera array acquires a plurality of wide field images, and the narrow field ring camera array acquires a plurality of narrow field images. The image processing device compresses a plurality of wide-field images and a plurality of narrow-field images based on the preview angle feedback informationfed back by the VR display device, and decodes and decompresses the compressed images after collecting the images in parallel. Multi-camera image mosaic equipment adopts ZNCC algorithm according to the calibration parameter matrix to decompress the decoded multi-wide field of view images and multi-narrow field of view images for multi-scale fusion to generate gigapixel-level ring image. megapixelVR panoramic video can be captured and displayed.