Camera Guide Mark Stabilizes Panoramic Image Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing imaging apparatuses face challenges in stabilizing camera movement during panoramic and 3D photography due to camera shake, leading to reduced correlation between images and deteriorated picture quality, especially when using traditional photographing guides that are difficult to control at longer distances.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus and method that displays a photographing guide on the screen, comprising an aiming mark at the center and a guide mark indicating the necessary length for the moving direction, helping users stabilize the camera by visually tracking the guide mark during image capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the camera is slid horizontally to photograph panoramic or 3D pictures, then multiple images can be captured efficiently, but camera shake occurs causing reduced correlation between images and deteriorated picture quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays a photographing guide on the screen showing the correlation between currently captured images and previously captured images. This visual feedback allows the user to monitor and adjust camera positioning in real-time, ensuring proper overlap and correlation between consecutive images while maintaining efficient panoramic or 3D photographing workflow
Solution Approach 2:
The photographing guide acts as an intermediary visual aid between the camera system and the user. It displays correlation information (such as overlapping regions or alignment indicators) that mediates the user's understanding of image correlation status, enabling precise control without directly modifying the camera mechanism
2Ease of operation
If traditional photographing guides are used, then users can follow basic alignment instructions, but the guides become difficult to control and less effective at longer distances
Solution Approach 1:
The photographing guide displays correlation information in a visual dimension on the screen, transforming abstract alignment data into concrete visual representations. This dimensional transformation allows users to perceive and control image correlation more effectively, maintaining precision regardless of distance
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AI summary
A digital camera includes an image sensor unit, a display that displays an image photographed by the image sensor unit, and a photographing guide generating unit that displays a photographing guide on the display when the image sensor unit obtains a stereo image or a panoramic image. The photographing guide generating unit displays, on the display as the photographing guide, an aiming mark that displays a fixed point positioned substantially at the center of the display and a guide mark that is a fixed point in the image photographed by the image sensor unit and has a length necessary for the stereo image or the panoramic image in a moving direction of the digital camera on a screen. Then, it is possible to provide an imaging apparatus capable of stably moving the imaging apparatus upon photographing a panoramic picture.