Immersive Video Capture with Synchronized Cameras for Simpler Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing streaming environments for video calls and live broadcasts often require multiple image capture devices and channels to provide multiple filming angles, leading to complexity and inconvenience for setup and viewing angle switching.
Innovation Solution
A device with multiple image capturing units, a control unit, and an imaging unit that determines a distance parameter based on a detection image to calculate rotation angles for the second image capturing units, allowing synchronized image streams to be combined, providing multiple filming angles without the need for multiple devices and channels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple image capture devices are used to provide multiple filming angles, then the viewing angle coverage is improved, but the device complexity and setup difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple image capturing units into a single integrated device, where multiple cameras are mounted on one platform and controlled by a single control unit. This merging approach allows the system to provide multiple filming angles while reducing the overall complexity compared to using separate independent devices for each angle.
Solution Approach 2:
The single image capturing device performs multiple functions by capturing images from different angles simultaneously through its multiple image capturing units. The control unit coordinates all units to capture images at the same moment, providing versatile viewing angle coverage without requiring multiple separate devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple channels are used for streaming different filming angles, then the multi-angle streaming capability is improved, but the operation complexity for viewers increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple image streams from different angles into a single combined stream that is transmitted through one channel. The control unit coordinates the timing of all image capturing units so that their images are captured simultaneously and combined into a single stream, allowing viewers to access multiple angles without switching channels.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple image capturing units are deployed, then the filming angle coverage is improved, but the synchronization control difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit receives timing information from each image capturing unit and adjusts the capture timing to ensure synchronization. The system uses feedback mechanisms where the control unit coordinates the operation of all image capturing units to capture images at the same moment, managing the complexity of synchronization through active timing coordination.
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AI summary
A device for immersive capture of streaming video and imaging and a method thereof are disclosed. In the device, a distance parameter is determined based on a detection image captured by a first image capturing unit and having a filming target, rotation angles of the second image capturing units are calculated based on the distance parameter, and unit distances between the second image capturing units and the first image capturing unit, respectively. After the second image capturing units are controlled to rotate based on the rotation angles respectively, a stream combination including the first image stream and the second image streams generated by the first image capturing unit and the second image capturing units in synchronization with each other can be generated, so as to achieve the technical effect of reducing complexity of setting up streaming environment that provides multiple filming angles and reducing trouble for installers.