Panorama Shooting Overlap Calculation for Seamless Image Stitching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic equipment fails to capture high-quality images during panorama shooting, resulting in non-uniform and distorted photos that require extensive post-processing for stitching into a coherent panorama.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that calculate the overlapping degree of boundary regions between images to be shot and previously shot images, prompting the user to adjust camera movement until the desired overlap is achieved, allowing for direct combination of images into a panorama without post-processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If post-shooting software stitching processing is used to combine images into a panorama, then panorama function is achieved, but image quality deteriorates due to non-uniform color and serious distortion in shot material photos
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by calculating the overlapping degree of boundary regions between adjacent images during the shooting process itself, rather than relying on post-shooting processing. The system prompts users to adjust camera movement in real-time to achieve desired overlap, ensuring high-quality images are captured with proper overlap before the shooting process ends. This prevents the need for extensive post-processing and maintains image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by continuously calculating the overlapping degree of boundary regions between the current image and the previously shot image during the shooting process. The system provides real-time feedback to the user through prompts, guiding them to adjust camera movement to achieve the desired overlap. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that images are captured with appropriate overlap for seamless panorama stitching, eliminating the quality issues associated with post-shooting processing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive post-shooting processing is performed to stitch images into a panorama, then panorama is achieved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs the overlapping degree calculation and overlap verification during the shooting process itself, rather than waiting until post-processing. By ensuring proper overlap is achieved while shooting, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming post-shooting processing to determine or create overlap, significantly reducing the total time required to produce a panorama.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically calculating the overlapping degree of boundary regions and providing real-time guidance to users during shooting. This automated real-time verification and guidance system ensures that images are captured with the correct overlap parameters, eliminating the need for extensive manual post-processing and reducing overall processing time.
3Ease of operation
If users are only prompted by 'Side Image' or assisted to find views during shooting, then shooting process is simple, but image uniformity deteriorates resulting in non-uniform color and serious distortion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enhances the feedback mechanism by calculating and providing real-time information about the overlapping degree of boundary regions between adjacent images. This additional feedback goes beyond simple 'Side Image' prompts, giving users precise information about whether their camera movement achieves the desired overlap. This maintains ease of operation while ensuring image uniformity through proper overlap control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/manual approach of relying on user judgment and simple 'Side Image' prompts with an automated computational system that calculates overlapping degrees in real-time. This substitution of mechanical estimation with computational analysis provides users with objective, quantifiable feedback, making the shooting process equally simple while dramatically improving image uniformity and reducing distortion.
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AI summary
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for shooting a panorama, so as to solve the problems in the prior art that images with high quality cannot be obtained in the shooting process of a panorama and the shot images cannot be directly combined into a panorama without post-shooting processing. The method comprises the steps of: calculating, when previewing an image to be shot which is not the first shot image in a panorama, an overlapping degree of a joining region between the image to be shot and a shot image; and shooting the image to be shot when the overlapping degree reaches a set condition. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for shooting a panorama.