62 results about "Underwater photography" patented technology

An underwater diving light includes efficient cooling of LEDs and other internal electronics by heat transfer to ambient water. The water is in contact with a metallic face plate or puck that conducts heat via contiguous metal from an LED circuit board or LED face plate. Ambient water can enter the assembly to spaces between the face plate and an intermediary plate at the front of a housing to efficiently cool the LEDs and associated electronics. In a high-output form the light can emit 8000 lumens, and in this embodiment the battery is cooled by ambient water. The face plate or puck is interchangeable, for different lighting characteristics.

A method and system based on image processing technique for the in-line real-time detection and evaluation to the flocculate generated after coagulating reaction in water treating procedure and the optimized control for adding coagulant is disclosed. An underwater photography is used to obtain the 2D image of flocculate by CCD. The 2D image is processed to obtain the characteristics and geometric parameters of flocculate. By use of the fuzzy sorting-analyzing method and flocculate speciment library, the flocculate is automatically classified and evaluated for optimizing the addition of coagulant.

An underwater diving light has a rotatable front filter ring for selecting light filtration as needed for underwater still or video photography conditions. The filter ring is removable and interchangeable with different rings. Another important feature is efficient cooling of the LEDs and other internal electronics of the diving light assembly. The water is in contact with a metallic front face that conducts heat directly away from a metal core circuit board carrying the LED array or arrays. In one form of the diving light water channels are provided so that the ambient water can enter the assembly to spaces behind the LCD circuit board to efficiently cool the LEDs and associated electronics. The front plate assembly can be removable, for rinsing the internal cooling cavities, for interchange with different front face assemblies, and for air travel when the LCDs must be removed from driving electronics for safety concerns.

The invention relates to an underwater photography measurement method for the profile accuracy of a semi-rigid self-resilience reflector and effectively realizes underwater quick detection of the profile accuracy of the reflector by using a digital camera to automatically and quickly measure points to be measured on the underwater reflector and providing the deformation analysis data of the profile accuracy in a zero-gravity environment after the reflector is manufactured. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, adhering coding points and marking points to the surface of the reflector in a radial mode; and secondly, respectively performing air measurement and underwater photography measurement, performing coordinate system conversion on an object space coordinate which is obtained through the air measurement and the underwater measurement, and thus obtaining the object space coordinate (X3, Y3, Z3) which is measured in air and water under the same coordinate system and obtaining a three-position coordinate difference (dx, dy, dz) of a point position, during the air measurement and the underwater measurement, of each characteristic point on an antenna. The method has the advantages of high measurement speed, high efficiency, low detection cost and high detection accuracy.

The invention relates to a single-joint water machine fish which comprises a shell, a main board cabin, a motion control cabin and a battery cabin; the outer contour of the shell is in a bionic fish shape, one end of the connecting rod is a front shell, and the other end of the front shell is of a bionic fishtail structure, and the front end of the main board cabin is matched and installed with the inner side of the front casing, wherein a lens set is arranged in the main board cabin, an eccentric anti-shake mechanism and a main PCB (printed circuit board), wherein the motion control cabin is connected with the rear end of the main board cabin, a three-axis linkage device and a transmission device are arranged in the motion control cabin, and the battery cabin is arranged below the motion control cabin according to the single-joint water machine fish disclosed by the invention, the special design is adopted for the single-joint water machine fish, the functions of water depth detection, water quality monitoring, underwater photography, underwater exploration, fish school detection, feeding, drug delivery, underwater engineering acceptance and underwater communication, underwater salvage, underwater rescue, seaborne rescue, sea, river, lake bed surveying and mapping, underwater drilling and flaw detection and the like can be realized.

This invention is a surf-launched, a submersible, self-righting radio controlled boat. It is one meter in length, 30 cm wide with a draught of 25 cm. The boat is electrically powered and operates on two 8 amp / hour dry cell batteries which power a 200 watt motor to which a 3:1 ratio reduction gearbox is attached driving a 115 mm 3-blade propeller. It is ideal for delivering a baited fishing line up to one km in oceans, dams and rivers. It is ideally used in conjunction with a battery-operated motorized winch whereby a line from the winch is attached to the boat in addition to the fishing line. Once the fishing line has been released, the winch pulls the boat back to shore. Other applications include underwater photography, recreation or life-saving where the boat itself, fitted with handles becomes a motorized life-buoy or the boat can be used to tow a life-buoy to a drowning bather.

The invention provides a periscopic camera shooting module for an intelligent terminal, and the intelligent terminal. The periscopic camera shooting module includes a fixing clamp, a telescopic lens group, and a reflective mirror group; the periscopic camera shooting module is detachably fixed on a rear camera by the fixing clamp; the telescopic lens group is arranged between the reflective lens group and the fixing clamp, and can stretch out and retract to change a shooting range of the periscopic camera shooting module; and the reflective lens group is jointed with the telescopic lens group,and can totally reflect external incident light to the rear camera for twice. The periscopic camera shooting module can achieve remote and large-range shooting, can achieve underwater photography, and can avoid lens shaking and suppositional focus due to an overlarge shooting range; and during underwater photography, an intelligent mobile phone does not have to be immersed into water, user operation is facilitated, and the labor intensity is lowered. The periscopic camera shooting module is simple in structure, is easy to operate, is suitable for different types of digital products having a shooting function, and is a shooting assist device which can be widely applied.

A waterproof device for cellphones comprises a lower case and an upper case pivotally fitted at the lower case. The lower case has a grip section protruding from the underside, an accommodating space inside the lower case for loading of a smart phone device, and a transparent material region located at the underside and corresponding to the lens of the smart phone device wherein the accommodating space is designed to accommodate a power supply module at another side for charging the smart phone device. Moreover, the upper case is penetrated by at least a pressing component which faces the accommodating space in the lower case and has one end above the upper case and the other end over the touch panel of the smart phone device. When the upper case is securely coupled with the lower case for development of an airtight space between the upper case and the lower case, a diver can manipulate the waterproof device for cellphones to take up underwater photography by tapping one end of the pressing component on a control panel and making the other end contact the smart phone device for controlled photography in water.

The invention relates to an underwater imaging lens, solving the problems of limit effective imaging distance of underwater photography due to luminous energy loss and background interference caused by the adsorbing and scattering action on light by a water medium via the underwater imaging lens in the prior art. The underwater imaging lens comprises an optical system arranged in a sealing mechanism, wherein the optical system comprises a water sealing window, a front lens group, a diaphragm, a rear lens group and an image plane which are successively arranged along a light path incidence direction. According to a great quantity of real experiments, glass combinations are optimized, the focal power is reasonably distributed, 11 pieces of glass are adopted, the lanthanide-series glass material with low chromatic dispersion and high refractive index is chosen, aberrations, such as the spherical aberration, the comatic aberration, the astigmatic aberration, the field curvature, the distortion, the axial chromatic aberration and the vertical-axis chromatic aberration can be effectively corrected, and the imaging quality is improved.

The invention relates to an unmanned submersible photographical boat which comprises a shell and a camera, wherein the shell is in a seal structure; the upper part of the boat is provided with a seal cover, and the side edge of the cover is provided with a counterweight water pipe leading to the inside of the shell; the upper part of the bow of the boat is provided with a waterproof camera and a video; the stern of the boat is provided with a motor-linked yaw rudder; the bottom of the inside of the shell is provided with a counterweighted cement filled block, a front movable counterweight device and a rear movable counterweight device are respectively arranged at the forward and backward directions of the boat, and the upper parts of the front and rear counterweight devices are respectively provided with a left balancing device and a right balancing device; the middle part of a cavity is provided with a cross-bar surface plate; and the front and rear parts of the inside of the shell are respectively provided with a proof water tank. In the invention, because the camera and the video are arranged at the sealed submersible boat and controlled automatically, the underwater photography can be performed without manual operation, meanwhile, the unmanned submersible photographical boat is small in climatic influence, and can run for a long time without submersible dangers; and in addition, the photographical boat is low in photographical cost, compact in structure and easy to popularize and use.

A system and method that receives and edits image data of an underwater scene in a digital image in order to remove undesirable tints from objects in the scene. In some embodiments, colors near the color of the water itself are protected to leave the water looking blue. Removing undesirable tints without removing the tint of the water itself results in images with more realistic coloring of people and objects in the scene, without eliminating the color cues (e.g., blue water) that indicate that the image is a photograph of an underwater scene.

A base, securely attachable to any type of watertight housing for an underwater camera without causing rotational displacement during its use for underwater photography, includes an elongated main body and a holder plate disposed on the main body which is transversely movable. The base has a protrusion for preventing transverse motion of a pedestal or a leg structure on the housing. A pair of set screws is provided in addition to a fixing screw that is passed through a fixing hole through the base main body to fasten the base to the camera housing. The base main body has a fixing hole for the fixing screw and a pair of elongated holes for passing the set screws so as to be transversely movable. The holder plate has an elongated hole for passing the fixing screw so as to be transversely movable and screw holes for engaging the set screws.

The invention relates to the technical field of shooting, in particular to dragging type water bottom shooting equipment. The dragging type water bottom shooting equipment comprises a camera carryingdevice, a lamplight carrying device, a main underwater camera and an underwater photography lamp. A traction ring is arranged at the upper end of the camera carrying device, and the lower end of the camera carrying device is connected with the lamplight carrying device. The area between the camera carrying device and the lamplight carrying device is a shooting area. The main underwater camera is arranged on the camera carrying device and used for shooting the shooting area. The underwater photography lamp is arranged on the lamplight carrying device and used for providing a light source for the shooting area. The water bottom shooting equipment is in a dragging type, image shooting is stable, the image area is fixed, a large number of continuous seabed images can be obtained, and the dragging type water bottom shooting equipment can be used in the research and survey of ocean demersal creatures.

The invention relates to the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, in particular to an anti-collision unmanned aerial vehicle for underwater photography. The anti-collision unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a main rack. The upper surface and the lower surface of the main rack are each fixedly provided with a sealing hood. A shooting device is arranged at the bottom of the sealing hood located below. According to the anti-collision unmanned aerial vehicle for underwater photography, a liquid pressurization device and high-pressure jetting devices are added for pressurizing liquid in water; in addition, multiple spray heads are added to the periphery of a lower shell and connected with the high-pressure jetting devices through pipes; high-pressure liquid is jetted for conducting steering on the main rack; the phenomenon that the unmanned aerial vehicle collides with a rock in the water to be damaged is avoided; moreover, a rope is added and connected with a control device, and the rope is arranged outside wires in a wrapping manner through extension and contraction, so that the wires are protected; meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle can be recycled conveniently when failure occurs; and people can confirm the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle conveniently.

The invention provides an underwater photographing device control system, and belongs to the field of underwater photographing equipment. The underwater photographing device comprises a user end and a photographing end; and the user end and the photographing end are connected. The user end comprises a touch display screen, a remote controller, a user end controller module, a storage module and a serial port module. The photographing end comprises a photographing end controller module, a motor driving module, a motor and a video camera. According to the invention, a very good underwater photographing device control system is provided for shutterbugs, and a user can achieve an effect of underwater photography without touching water.

The invention provides a high-efficiency detection device for surface of an underwater structure. Through arranging a photograph unit and a latch member, the number of the photographing units can be increased or decreased according to the condition of the building surface, and the photographing range of each adjacent unit is not less than 20%, thereby ensuring the post-image mosaic processing, thereby adapting to the photographing needs under different conditions, improving the photographing efficiency, facilitating disassembly and installation, and facilitating transportation; By installing water pump, water collecting pipe and nozzle, the surrounding water can be pumped in time, the building surface sediment can be cleaned, and the underwater photography can be synchronously carried out,which greatly improves the work efficiency. Additional light lamps and searchlights can be set to adapt to the underwater operation environment.

The invention relates to the field of underwater photography, in particular to an underwater robot with a living broadcast function. A 3D living broadcast camera is installed on the upper portion of a robot platform; a terminal display software platform is further arranged in the middle of the robot platform; the 3D living broadcast camera is connected with the terminal display software platform through a concentrator; a control circuit board, a power supply module, a battery, an encoding and decoding module, an acoustic wave imaging module and a visible light imaging module are arranged in the robot platform. The encoding and decoding module, the acoustic wave imaging module and the visible light imaging module are all connected with the control circuit board. The underwater robot with the living broadcast function has the beneficial effects that signals can be better transmitted through a zero-buoyancy wire and a wireless module; the terminal display software platform can display photographed pictures; the encoding and decoding module enables the photographed pictures to be better displayed; and underwater-collected images are collected, transmitted and displayed in a living broadcast mode and include the common visible light images, the sound images and the 3D panorama images.

The invention relates to the technical field of underwater photography equipment, and concretely relates to underwater photography equipment with an intelligent light supplementing function. The underwater photography equipment with the intelligent light supplementing function comprises a machine body working underwater, two symmetrical handles are fixed to the machine body, a diver can hold the handles with two hands to carry out underwater photography work, a rotating cavity is formed in the end wall of the side, away from the handles, of the machine body, a camera is rotatably arranged in the rotating cavity, and the camera is arranged in the rotating cavity. An imaging cavity is formed in the end wall of the side, away from the handle, of the camera, a photographing mechanism used for photographing underwater images is arranged in the imaging cavity, a display screen is fixed to the end wall of the side, where the handle is located, of the fuselage, and a diver can observe the images photographed by the photographing mechanism through the display screen. According to the invention, intelligent light supplement during underwater photography can be realized, stability underwater can be maintained, and a diver can be driven to swim quickly in emergency.

The invention belongs to the technical field of underwater photography, and discloses an underwater optical imaging system and method suitable for large-range shallow sea coral reef drawing, and the system comprises a sensor main cabin, a power propulsion and adjustment module, a positioning module, and a communication module. A camera, a sounding sonar, a solar downlink irradiance measuring instrument, a water sample collecting device, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the like are arranged in the sensor main cabin; the power propulsion and adjustment module is arranged on the outer side of the sensor main cabin; the positioning module is arranged at the upper end of the sensor main cabin and is used for receiving a GPS positioning signal through a GPS receiving antenna; and the communication module is arranged at the upper end of the sensor main cabin and is used for performing data communication with a remote terminal through the communication signal receiving antenna. According to the invention, underwater monitoring images with high positioning precision can be shot, three-dimensional modeling of underwater targets and terrains can be carried out by using images with high overlapping degree, and the method and systemare used for distribution and area measurement of underwater ecosystems such as coral reefs and the like.

The invention discloses the technical field of underwater photography, specifically relates to an underwater photographic device, and aims to solve the technical problem that the underwater camera inthe prior art adopts a wireless mode to transmit data signals and causes poor signal reception due to increased distance. The underwater photographic device comprises a device main body, and is characterized in that a propelling rack and a water storage cavity are installed in the middle of the device main body, a direction adjusting joint is installed at the tail end of the device main body, a support is installed below the device main body, a transparent cover is installed on the front part of the device main body, and a camera is installed in the transparent cover; and the upper portion ofthe device main body is equipped with a ridge, the ridge is internally provided with a signal transmitting end, and the camera transmits data through the signal transmitting end. Two sets of amplification chips are adopted in an amplification circuit in the device, and the two sets of amplification chips form a bridge-type power amplifier, so that the amplification of transmitting power is realized, and the stability of signal transmission during overall remote control is improved.

The invention relates to an underwater photography fixing frame, and can effectively solve the problems that in the prior art, photographic equipment is inconvenient to adjust and tedious in adjustingmode, so that the photography effect is poor. According to the technical scheme, the fixing frame comprises a fixed shaft, wherein the fixed shaft is sleeved with a rotating block, the portion, on the left side of the rotating block, of the fixed shaft is sleeved with a supporting block which can move along the fixed shaft and can rotate, a first sleeve coaxial with the fixed shaft is installed at the left end of the rotating block, the first sleeve is in threaded connection with the supporting block, a connecting block is installed on the portion, on the right side of the rotating block, ofthe fixed shaft, a positioning hole is formed in the right end face of the supporting block, transverse rods are arranged on the left end face of the connecting block and arranged in the correspondingpositioning holes, the portion, between the rotating block and the connecting block, of the fixed shaft is sleeved with a second sleeve which can move left and right along the fixed shaft and can rotate, a clamping device is mounted between the second sleeve and the fixed shaft, and the second sleeve is in key connection with the connecting block. The fixing frame is novel in conception and ingenious in structure.

Aspects of the present application provide an underwater photography accessory for portable electronic devices. The accessory includes an enclosure and a lens arrangement. The enclosure defines a cavity configured to enclose a portable electronic device having a camera lens and includes an aperture formed in a wall thereof and operatively providing optical communication between a camera lens receiving zone of the cavity and a lens of the lens arrangement. The cavity is dimensioned to accommodate a selected range of portable electronic device dimensions. The aperture is dimensioned such that the camera lens receiving zone operatively accommodates various camera lens positions therein. The cavity accommodates an insert member for operatively holding a cooperating portable electronic device in a position in which a camera lens thereof locates within the camera receiving zone of the cavity.