Multi-Camera 3D Photo Capture With Overlapping FOV Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices struggle to efficiently generate stereoscopic photographs using multiple cameras with overlapping fields-of-view (FOVs) to provide a three-dimensional effect without requiring multiple shooting inputs.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device simultaneously controls at least two cameras with overlapping FOVs to capture images with disparities, processing these images to generate an animation with a three-dimensional effect based on a single shooting input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple cameras with overlapping FOVs are used to generate stereoscopic photographs, then the three-dimensional effect is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines images from multiple cameras with overlapping fields-of-view to generate a stereoscopic photograph. The processor merges the first image from a first camera and the second image from a second camera, using the overlapping FOV to create depth perception and three-dimensional effect while managing the complexity through automated processing.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple shooting inputs are required to capture images from multiple cameras, then the image quality is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration by establishing overlapping fields-of-view between multiple cameras before actual photography. The processor is pre-configured to automatically select and merge images from appropriate cameras based on the overlapping FOV regions, eliminating the need for multiple separate shooting operations while maintaining image quality.
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AI summary
A processor of an electronic device, according to one embodiment, displays, on a display, a preview image on the basis of at least some of a plurality of images acquired through a first camera of the electronic device, receives a shooting input while the preview image is displayed, responds to the reception of the shooting input so as to acquire, through the first camera, a first image including a first visual object, acquires, through a second camera of the electronic device, a second image including a second visual object, acquires a third image, which is converted from the second image and includes a second visual object having a size corresponding to the size of the first visual object, displays the first image, and then displays the third image so as to acquire a fourth image for providing an animation for a subject.