Control Device for Moving Object Imaging with Brightness-Based Speed Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in ensuring that an imaging apparatus on a moving object can image a target region with the appropriate shutter speed corresponding to the region's brightness, while the object is in motion.

Innovation Solution

A control device and method that acquire the brightness of an imaging target region before a moving object with an imaging apparatus reaches a target position, and then adjust the shutter speed and movement speed of the object to match the region's brightness, allowing the apparatus to image the region correctly while the object is moving.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the moving object travels at high speed along the flight route, then productivity is improved, but image shake increases and imaging quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflight speedVSAvoidimaging quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The control device acquires brightness information of the imaging target region before the moving object reaches the target position, and pre-adjusts the shutter speed and flight speed based on this information. This preliminary action allows the imaging apparatus to capture images with appropriate shutter speeds even while moving, preventing image shake and maintaining imaging quality during high-speed flight

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the shutter speed and flight speed based on the actual brightness conditions of different imaging target regions. The control device modifies operational parameters in real-time according to lighting conditions, enabling the moving object to maintain optimal imaging quality across varying environmental conditions while traveling at high speeds

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If the shutter speed is adjusted to match the brightness of the imaging target region, then imaging quality is improved, but the complexity of controlling multiple parameters increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimaging qualityVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control device combines the control of shutter speed and flight speed into a unified control process. By acquiring brightness information and simultaneously determining both shutter speed and flight speed based on this single parameter, the system merges multiple control functions into one integrated operation, reducing overall control complexity while maintaining imaging quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes operational parameters (shutter speed and flight speed) based on a single key parameter - the brightness of the imaging target region. By using brightness as the primary control variable to determine both shutter speed and flight speed, the system simplifies the control logic while achieving optimal imaging conditions through parameter adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250159355A1Control device, control method, and program
Publication Date: 2025.05.15 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

A control device includes a first processor. The first processor is configured to acquire, at a time before a first moving object equipped with an imaging apparatus reaches a target position, brightness of an imaging target region imaged by the imaging apparatus from the target position, acquire a shutter speed corresponding to the brightness and a movement speed corresponding to the shutter speed, and cause, at the target position, the imaging apparatus to image the imaging target region with the shutter speed while causing the first moving object to move with the movement speed.