Primary and Auxiliary Image Capture Devices for Stereoscopic Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image capture devices are limited in their ability to generate three-dimensional images and often suffer from issues like motion blur and dynamic range limitations, making it difficult to produce high-quality stereoscopic content.
Innovation Solution
The use of primary and auxiliary image capture devices, each with an image sensor and lens, where the auxiliary device captures images of lower quality to assist the primary device in adjusting parameters and generating adjusted images for improved image processing, including stereoscopic image creation, motion blur removal, and high-dynamic-range imaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional single image capture devices are used, then device simplicity is maintained, but image quality and three-dimensional capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the image capture function into two separate devices: a primary image capture device for high-quality images and an auxiliary image capture device for lower-quality images. This segmentation allows each device to be optimized for its specific function while working together to achieve superior overall performance including three-dimensional image generation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines data from both the primary and auxiliary image capture devices through image processing to generate enhanced images with improved quality characteristics and three-dimensional effects. The merging of data from multiple sources achieves superior image quality that neither device could produce alone.
2Device complexity
If auxiliary image capture device with lower quality is used, then cost and complexity are reduced, but image quality matching becomes necessary
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters of the lower-quality auxiliary images through image processing adjustments to match the quality characteristics of the primary device. By adjusting parameters such as resolution, color balance, and sharpness, the auxiliary images are transformed to be compatible with the higher-quality primary images for combined processing.
3Speed
If motion blur occurs in captured images, then capture speed is maintained, but image clarity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the auxiliary image capture device to detect motion blur in the primary captured images. By analyzing the auxiliary lower-quality images for motion blur characteristics and feeding this information back to the processing system, motion blur can be identified and corrected through image processing while maintaining the advantage of fast capture speed.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are primary and auxiliary image capture devices for image processing and related methods. According to an aspect, a method may include using primary and auxiliary image capture devices to perform image processing. The method may include using the primary image capture device to capture a first image of a scene, the first image having a first quality characteristic. Further, the method may include using the auxiliary image capture device to capture a second image of the scene. The second image may have a second quality characteristic. The second quality characteristic may be of lower quality than the first quality characteristic. The method may also include adjusting at least one parameter of one of the captured images to create a plurality of adjusted images for one of approximating and matching the first quality characteristic. Further, the method may include utilizing the adjusted images for image processing.