Cinemagraph Creation Using Multi-Camera Image Data Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for creating cinemagraphs often require manual selection and processing of image data from a single camera, limiting collaboration and creativity in capturing dynamic scenes with multiple viewpoints.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that combine image data from multiple cameras to create cinemagraphs, allowing for the selection of static and animated parts, alignment, and integration of data from different camera angles, enabling collaborative creation and flexible user input for enhanced visual effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual selection and processing of image data from a single camera is used, then processing complexity is reduced, but creativity and collaboration in capturing dynamic scenes are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the image data processing into separate streams from multiple cameras, allowing independent processing of each camera's data while maintaining the ability to combine them. This segmentation enables collaboration between multiple cameras without requiring complex integrated processing of all data at once.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that receives image data from multiple cameras, aligns them temporally and spatially, and prepares them for combination. This intermediary layer manages the complexity of multi-camera integration while preserving creative flexibility in the final cinemagraph creation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If image data from multiple cameras is combined, then seamless integration of multiple viewpoints is achieved, but processing power and bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential synchronization metadata (timestamps, camera identifiers, alignment parameters) from the multi-camera data streams, separating this critical information from the full image data. This extraction enables efficient processing by handling only the necessary coordination information while maintaining the ability to integrate multiple viewpoints.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary alignment and synchronization of image data from multiple cameras before the actual cinemagraph creation process. By pre-processing the data to establish temporal and spatial relationships, the system reduces the computational burden during final processing and minimizes bandwidth requirements for data transfer.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus receives first image data that is based on image data captured by a first camera and second image data that is based on image data captured by a second camera. The apparatus then creates a cinemagraph using the first image data for a static part of the cinemagraph and using the second image data for an animated part of the cinemagraph. Another apparatus could provide at least one of the first and second image data based on a detected corresponding element.