JPH05236317A - Telecamera action controller using panhead - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately select plural optional shooting positions and to facilitate the shooting operations. CONSTITUTION:A touch panel 11 including a touch input pert 12 divided in a matrix form is attached on the screen of a monitor 10 which displays the photographed images. Then, the panning and tilting parameters of a panhead 4 are stored in a RAM 19 together with the zooming and focusing parameters of a lens part 1 of a telecamera 2 for shooting operations in accordance with the part 12. Thus, the shooting operations are controlled and facilitated with operation of the panel 11 carried out when the images are displayed on the monitor 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television camera operation control device using a pan head, and more particularly to a configuration of operation control for pointing a television camera in an arbitrary direction by remote control and taking a picture under a predetermined setting condition. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In photographing with a television camera, one or a plurality of television cameras are operated remotely, and the position and angle of a subject to be photographed are variously changed according to setting conditions. For this reason, a system unit in which a TV camera is attached to the platform is used.

FIG. 5 shows the structure of a conventional television camera operation control device using a platform, in which a television camera 2 having a lens portion 1 is attached to a platform 4 supported by a column 3. There is. The platform 4 has a drive mechanism housed therein, and the drive mechanism rotates the TV camera 2 in a pan (horizontal direction) by rotating the drive mechanism left and right, and rotates the TV camera 2 in a tilt (up and down direction) by rotating up and down. be able to. A monitor 5 for inputting a video signal from the TV camera 2 and an operation control unit 6 for controlling the operations of the TV camera 2 and the platform 4 are arranged in an operation room or the like.

According to such a device, the operation control unit 6 operates the camera platform 4 to direct the television camera 2 in an arbitrary direction, and the lens unit 1 controls operations such as zooming and focusing. Be seen. Then, the shot operation can be performed in a state where the parameters (conditions) of the pan, tilt, zoom (enlargement magnification), and focus (focal length) are preset. That is, in the basic image displayed on the monitor 5 of FIG. 5, by recording each parameter of the shot operation corresponding to the selected positions of A, B, C, D, ...
The buttons a, b, c, d, ... Of the switch 7 are preset. Therefore, by appropriately operating the buttons a, b, c, d ... Of the switch 7, the shot operation to a predetermined position can be performed. As a conventional platform control device, there is also one disclosed in JP-A-59-228473.

[0005]

However, in the above-described conventional television camera operation control device using a pan head, a plurality of shot positions A, B, C, D ... Set on the basic image as described above are displayed. Since it is arbitrarily selected, the shot positions A, B, C, D ...
There is a problem that it is difficult to grasp the correspondence relationship with b, c, d .... That is, the shot positions A, B, and
It is not possible to confirm C, D ... On the screen, and it is determined which shot position each button a, b, c, d ... Of the switch 7 corresponds to by the operator's memory or memo writing. is doing. Therefore, an erroneous operation such as performing a shot operation at a different position may occur, and the shot operation cannot be easily performed. Further, the setting operation of the shot operation is complicated, and it is necessary to simplify the shot operation including this point.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a television camera operation control device using a pan head, which makes it possible to accurately select a plurality of arbitrary shot positions and facilitate shot operations. To provide.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention uses a camera platform in which the position of a television camera lens unit is controlled by the camera platform and the photographing operation of this lens unit is controlled. In the TV camera operation control device that was
Corresponding to a touch panel having a touch input section arranged on a monitor screen displaying an image taken by the television camera and configured so that the monitor screen is divided into a matrix, and a touch input section of the touch panel And a memory for storing the operating parameters of the camera lens unit of the TV camera lens at which the shot operation is performed, and the touch panel is operated while the image is displayed on the monitor screen to operate the camera platform and the TV. It is characterized in that the shot operation of the camera lens unit is controlled.

[0008]

According to the above arrangement, the shot position can be easily selected by pushing each divided touch input section with a finger or the like while looking at the image observed through the transparent touch panel. Then, when the signal of the selected touch input section is supplied to the control section, the shot operation parameter at the selected position is read from the memory, and the shot operation is executed based on this parameter.

[0009]

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a television camera operation control device using a platform according to the embodiment, and FIG. 2 shows the circuit configuration thereof. In FIG. 1, a television camera 2 having a lens unit 1 is attached to a platform 4 supported by a column 3, as in the conventional case. The platform 4 allows the television camera 2 to pan (horizontal direction) and tilt (horizontal direction). (Up and down direction)
It can be driven to. And
A monitor 10 for inputting a video signal and displaying a captured image is connected to the television camera 2.
Touch panel 1 so that it overlaps the entire screen
1 is attached.

The touch panel 11 is made of a transparent material and has a plurality of touch input sections 12 set in a matrix. Each of the capacitance type, surface acoustic wave type, resistive film type, infrared type, etc. The system type can be applied. For example, in the case of the electrostatic capacity method, the contact state with the panel surface can be detected by the change in the electrostatic capacity, and the contact position can be detected by the fluctuation of the minute AC (alternating current) current (signal) supplied to the touch panel 11. When the touch position is output as the information of the coordinate data, the touch input unit 1
Each position (shot number) of 2 is identified. In the embodiment, the touch panel 11 is divided into eight parts vertically and horizontally (other 16
Therefore, 64 touch input units 12 are formed on the entire screen.

An operation control unit 14 is provided so as to be connected to the lens unit 1 and the platform 4 of the television camera 2.
The touch panel 11 is connected to the operation control unit 14. The operation control unit 14 has a joystick 15A for performing pan and tilt movements and a joystick 15B for performing zooming and focusing. The joysticks 15A and 15B can operate the platform 4 and the television camera 2 independently. The lens unit 1 is actually operated to the shot position to set and store each parameter of the shot operation. A reset button 16A is attached to the switch section 16 of the operation control section 14,
The reset button 16A may be provided on the monitor 10 side.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the touch panel 11 assigns, for example, A to H in the vertical axis direction and 1 to 8 in the horizontal axis direction, shot numbers (from the coordinate data) are assigned to A1, A2 ... H7, H8. The touch input unit 12 is set as the obtained identification number). The operation controller 14 includes the joystick 15 and the switch 1
6, an interface 17, a CPU (central processing unit) 18, a writable memory (RAM) 19 and D /
An A converter 20 and an amplifier 21 are provided, and the RA
The shot operation parameters of pan, tilt, zoom (enlargement magnification), and focus (focal length) corresponding to each shot number of the touch input unit 12 are stored in M19. When the shot operation parameter is set to be a shot operation different from the set state, for example, basic data is automatically set in advance for all shot numbers from the basic image set by the TV camera 2. Only, it is possible to move the television camera 2 to an arbitrary position by operating the joysticks 15A and 15B and set the parameter information thereof.

A pan head driving unit 22 arranged in the pan head 4 and a lens driving unit 23 arranged in the lens unit 1 are connected to the amplifier 21, and these pan head driving units 22 are connected. The lens drive unit 23 is supplied with the control signal for the shot operation based on the parameter information read from the RAM 19 by the CPU 18.

The embodiment has the above-mentioned configuration, and the CPU
18 will perform the operation shown in FIG. That is, in step 101, the shot number is selected by pressing the touch input section 12 of the touch panel 11, but in step 102, it is determined whether or not the input operation of the touch input section 12 is performed. If “YES”, the process proceeds to step 103. This step 103
Then, the shot number is converted into the shot number corresponding to the selected touch input unit 12, and the pan, tilt, zoom, and focus information which is each operation parameter of the shot number is read from the RAM 19. Then the next step 1
In 04, a control signal based on the pan / tilt information is supplied to the camera platform drive unit 22 and a control signal based on the zoom / focus information is supplied to the lens drive unit 23, thereby performing a shot. Will be done.

FIG. 4 shows an image displayed on the screen of the monitor 10. In the basic image shown in FIG. 4A, an arbitrary place on the touch panel 11 can be pushed and operated. For example, when the shot number C6 is selected, as shown in FIG. 6B, a shot image of the set magnification in which the portion of the shot number C6 is arranged in the center of the screen is displayed.

Then, when the reset button 16A of the operation control section 14 is pressed, the display of the monitor 10 returns to the basic image of FIG. (A), and in this state, by further pressing the different touch input section 12 of the touch panel 11, Shot images at different positions are shot and displayed. In this case, when the shot image is displayed on the monitor 10, the basic image can be displayed in the corner of the screen by superimposing.

In the above embodiment, the case where the television camera 2 having the platform 4 and the monitor 10 are one set has been described, but a plurality of the television cameras 2 and the plurality of monitors 10 are provided, and one monitor 10 is provided. Various other combinations such as attaching the touch panel 11 to display a basic image and displaying a shot image on another monitor 10 are possible.

In the above embodiment, the touch input section 12 of the touch panel 11 is divided into 64 pieces, but the X and Y axes of the screen are divided into tens, hundreds and thousands to make many touches. It is possible to set the input unit 12 and execute fine shot motion control. Further, touch input on the touch panel 11 may be performed by means other than a finger such as a pen.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A touch panel with a touch input section set by dividing the screen into a matrix is provided on the monitor screen, and operating parameters of the pan head and the TV camera for executing a shot at a position corresponding to the touch input section are stored in a memory, Since the shot operation can be controlled by operating the touch panel, the shot operation can be executed while confirming the position on the captured image. Therefore, there are advantages that a plurality of and arbitrary shot positions can be accurately selected and that the shot operation including the setting operation becomes easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a television camera operation control device using a platform according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of the device of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a basic image displayed on the monitor [FIG. (A)],
It is a figure which shows the image [figure (b)] displayed by the shot operation.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a conventional television camera operation control device using a platform.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Lens part, 2 ... TV camera, 4 ...
Platform, 10 ... Monitor, 11 ... Touch panel, 1
2 ... Touch input unit, 14 ... Operation control unit, 16
A ... Reset button, 18 ... CPU, 19 ...
RAM.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A television camera operation control device using a tripod head in which the position of the television camera lens portion is controlled by the tripod head and the photographing operation of the lens portion is controlled.
Corresponding to a touch panel having a touch input section arranged on a monitor screen displaying an image taken by the television camera and configured so that the monitor screen is divided into a matrix, and a touch input section of the touch panel And a memory for storing the operating parameters of the camera lens unit of the TV camera lens at which the shot operation is performed, and the touch panel is operated while the image is displayed on the monitor screen to operate the camera platform and the TV. A television camera operation control device using a pan head, which controls a shot operation of a camera lens unit.