Focus Transition Control for Multi-Area Image Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image capturing devices lack the ability to seamlessly transition focus between different areas of interest within an image, resulting in inconsistent sharpness and blurriness, which limits user control over the focal settings in multi-focal plane imaging.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allow users to select and adjust focal settings for specific areas of interest and transitional areas, generating interfaces and image capturing parameters to implement these settings, enabling abrupt or gradual transitions in focus between areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users want to capture images with multiple focal planes, then image quality and versatility are improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to lack of seamless focus transition control
Solution Approach 1:
The image is divided into multiple areas of interest, each with independently controllable focal settings. The system segments the focal control into discrete regions that can be individually adjusted, allowing users to specify different focus parameters for different areas without controlling the entire image as a single unit.
Solution Approach 2:
Different focal settings are applied to different areas of the image rather than using a uniform focus setting across the entire image. This allows each area of interest to have optimized local focus quality while transitional areas between them have intermediate focus characteristics.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed control over focal settings for multiple areas, then user control and image quality improve, but device complexity and interface complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The interface dynamically adapts to user selections by automatically generating appropriate transitional focal settings when users define areas of interest. The system dynamically creates and adjusts the number of transitional areas based on the spatial relationships between selected areas, rather than requiring users to manually configure all parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary by automatically generating transitional focal settings that bridge between user-defined focal settings in different areas of interest. This intermediary function reduces interface complexity by handling the computationally intensive task of calculating intermediate focal values.
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically generates transitional focal settings, then ease of operation improves, but measurement precision and control accuracy may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users by displaying the generated transitional focal settings and allowing users to review and adjust them. This feedback loop ensures that automatically generated settings meet precision requirements while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to modify the automatically generated transitional focal settings by changing relevant parameters. Users can adjust the focal values, transition smoothness, and other parameters to achieve the desired precision while benefiting from the automated generation process.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for setting a focal transition for an image capturing device receive data including user selections of focal settings for respective areas of interest in an image, generate a first interface that includes indicators of the focal settings for the respective areas of interest, receive data including user selections of transitional focal settings for respective transitional areas between the areas of interest, and generate a second interface, the second interface including indicators of the transitional focal settings for the respective transitional areas between the areas of interest.