JPH1155693A - Electronic photographic paper device and digital still picture camera - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To immediately photograph a stereoscopic image when you want to photograph and to instantly perform stereoscopic image display by taking in a still image that is seen from more than two angles with more than two lens, combining each image information that is taken in to be a stereoscopic still image and transmitting it to a stereoscopic display electronic paper. SOLUTION: The angles of camera lens 103 to 105 are preliminarily decided by using lens turning movable parts 101 and 102, a shutter switch 110 is turned on, a CCD element fetches still picture information and it is stored in internal image memory. Next, an internal microprocessor reads contents of each image information in addition to the angle information of the lens 103 to 105, performs parallax compensation operation processing, etc., by taking the correlation and configures a stereoscopic image. Image reproduction is shown on a stereoscopic image indicator 106 or image transmission is performed to a stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper 300 through an image information modulated light signal transmitting window 112. With this, it is possible to photograph a digital picture that can be performed stereoscopic display any at any time and anywhere.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a three-dimensional digital still picture camera compatible with a three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper, which can be used to take a three-dimensional image immediately when it is desired to take a three-dimensional image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, digital image information obtained by a digital still image camera is two-dimensional information, and its confirmation is performed by:
Two-dimensional display is possible on a display of an information device with a display such as a personal computer or a display of a home television, or two-dimensional printing is performed on a photographic paper made of paper using a printer or the like. Had been.

On the other hand, as a device for displaying a three-dimensional image,
3D using home stereoscopic television and stereoscopic glasses for automatically converting a 2D image into a 3D image and displaying the 3D image
There are 3D movie equipment and systems.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional digital still image camera, information is insufficient for three-dimensional display with only one camera. Also, even if the camera becomes multi-view and three-dimensional information can be taken as photographic information, it cannot be displayed three-dimensionally on photographic paper made of paper or on printer paper, and the display is performed by converting image information from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. To display on a personal computer or on a 3D television. Further, there has been a problem that a three-dimensional image cannot be confirmed with the feeling of a conventional photographic paper type two-dimensional display photograph.

Further, when a three-dimensional image is desired to be taken, it is taken immediately, and a three-dimensional image is immediately taken, as in a polaroid camera system.
The intended use of the three-dimensional image, which is capable of displaying a three-dimensional image, has not been the intended form, and the three-dimensional photograph has not been freely portable and easily transferred to another person.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a digital still camera has a camera lens for capturing two or more images for capturing still images viewed from two or more angles as photographic information. Image information processing means for connecting each image information taken in by each lens so as to become a stereoscopic still image, and stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper for stereoscopically displaying the stereoscopic still image obtained by the image information processing means. Means for transmitting a three-dimensional still image to the electronic three-dimensional photographic paper.

In a digital still picture camera, 2
Camera lenses for capturing two or more images for capturing still images viewed from two or more angles as photographic information, and image information for connecting each captured image information into a three-dimensional still image by each lens Processing means;
Means for image-compressing the stereoscopic still image information obtained by the image information processing means, a stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper device for image-expanding the image-compressed stereoscopic still image information, and a stereoscopic display electronic printing Means for transmitting a three-dimensional still compressed image to a paper device.

[0008] Further, in the stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper apparatus of the stereoscopic digital still image camera, a means for receiving stereoscopic still image information transmitted from the electronic stereoscopic still camera, An image storage unit for storing information, an information storage unit which is non-volatile and stores a character code and editing information relating to the contents of the image storage unit, and displays the stereoscopic still image information as a stereoscopic image Means for displaying on a container.

In the three-dimensional digital still image camera of the three-dimensional digital still image camera, there is provided means for receiving three-dimensional still image compression information transmitted from the three-dimensional digital still image camera; An image storage unit for storing image compression information, an information storage unit which is non-volatile and stores character codes and editing information relating to the contents of the image storage unit, and expands the stereoscopic still image compression information. And means for converting the three-dimensional still image information into a three-dimensional image and displaying it on a display.

Further, in the three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper, means for non-contact optical transmission of three-dimensional still image information to the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper is provided.

Further, in the three-dimensional digital still image camera compatible with the electronic photographic paper device, means for transmitting the three-dimensional still image information to the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper device by non-contact electromagnetic wave modulation is provided.

In the three-dimensional digital still image camera compatible with the electronic photographic paper device, a display unit capable of three-dimensional display is provided on the camera body.

Further, in the three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper, there is provided means for bringing the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper device into contact with the three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper to transmit and receive three-dimensional still image information.

Further, in the stereoscopic digital still image camera for electronic printing paper, a panorama rotation switch for viewing a panoramic image is provided.

Further, a panorama rotation switch for viewing a panoramic image is provided on the stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper of the stereoscopic digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper.

Further, in the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper of the three-dimensional digital still image camera corresponding to the electronic photographic paper device, means for enabling the electronic photographic paper device to be bent is provided.

By providing the above means, the above-mentioned problem is solved.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a three-dimensional digital still image camera 100 for digital photographic paper and a three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper 300 embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a control circuit of the digital still picture camera 100 for electronic photographic paper.

Here, the stereoscopic digital still image camera 100
Is a multi-lens configuration including lenses 103 to 105. In addition, the lens mounting portions 101 and 102 are provided with 360 degrees so that the direction of the camera lens can be freely changed.
It can rotate freely. Camera body 1
00 is provided with a display 106 capable of three-dimensional display, a shutter switch 110, and an operation switch 107 for three-dimensionally displaying the taken image on the display 106 of the camera body and rotating and displaying the image. Up / down switches 108 and 109 for turning pages of a plurality of three-dimensional photographs taken, and three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper 30
A window 112 for optically modulated transmission / reception signal and the like for non-contact transmission of stereoscopic image information to the image data 0 are provided.

Next, the configuration of the control circuit will be described. There are CCD elements 205 to 208 for digitizing an image and taking it into a memory inside the main body corresponding to each lens of the stereoscopic digital still image camera 100 for electronic photographic paper, and stores image information taken through the lens as a digital signal. 209
To memorize. The display 106 is controlled by the display controller 211, and the entire control including the switch operation control is performed by the microprocessor 210. The microprocessor 210 performs 3
Also responsible for creating and controlling dimensional images. Further, the image information can be stored in the memory card 111 via the connection interface 214.

FIG. 3 shows a block configuration of a control circuit of the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper 300. An optical transmission interface 303 for receiving image information from the stereoscopic digital still image camera 100, a solar cell 301 for supplying power to electronic photographic paper, a display device 302 for stereoscopic display, and a display controller 306 for controlling the whole. And a microprocessor 304 that controls the creation of a three-dimensional image while performing parallax compensation calculation and the like.

FIG. 4 shows an operation flow of the stereoscopic digital still image camera.

FIG. 5 shows a mode in which a digital display paper for stereoscopic display is inserted into a stereoscopic digital still image camera and connected.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the figures shown above, taking a multi-view digital still image camera compatible with stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper as an example.

The angles of a plurality (two or more) of the lenses 103 to 105 are determined in advance using a lens rotation mechanism 401, and the camera shutter 110 is turned on to determine the angles.
02: Still image information is taken in by the CCD element through each lens and stored in the image memory 209.
3. Next, the microprocessor 210 reads the content of each image information in addition to the lens angle information, and performs a parallax compensation calculation process or the like by taking a correlation between them, thereby forming a stereoscopic image 405.

At this time, in the main body panorama mode,
Panoramic image processing is performed instead of stereoscopic viewing, and a panoramic picture can be taken.

Next, in reproducing the image, the image is displayed on the display unit 106 provided in the camera body or 409, or the image information is transmitted to the three-dimensional display compatible electronic photographic paper 300 by contactless transmission and displayed 409. At this time, an image is transmitted to the three-dimensional display compatible electronic photographic paper 300 in a non-contact manner via the optical transmission interface 112 of the camera body. Electronic photographic paper 30 for 3D display
On the 0 side, image information for each lens is received through the optical transmission interface 303 and stored in the nonvolatile memory 305. If the image information at this time is compressed information, the image information is decompressed corresponding to the information captured for each lens, and the operation including the parallax processing is performed by the microprocessor 304.
And the image is stereoscopically displayed on the display 302 under the control of the display controller 306. The power source is a solar cell 301
Supplied at The battery may be a dry battery of another type.

Although the above description has been made of a system that does not use stereoscopic glasses, the same applies to a system that uses stereoscopic glasses 407 as a stereoscopic display system.

Although the image transmission to the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper has been described in the non-contact system, it may be a system in which the image is directly brought into contact with the camera body as shown in FIG.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, without providing a large-scale display device such as a personal computer and a television,
You can take 3D digital photos anytime, anywhere. In addition, since multi-camera images can be displayed in three dimensions by using electronic printing paper that supports three-dimensional display, stereoscopic photographs can be displayed to others as electronic printing paper, like photographs made of conventional paper. It can be transferred and can be adapted for personal use.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a stereoscopic digital still image camera compatible with stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper and the appearance of electronic photographic paper compatible with stereoscopic display.

FIG. 2 shows a control block configuration of a stereoscopic digital still image camera compatible with stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper.

FIG. 3 shows a control block configuration of a three-dimensional display-compatible electronic photographic paper.

FIG. 4 shows an example of an operation flow of a stereoscopic digital still image camera compatible with stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper.

FIG. 5 shows a case in which the transmission system of the stereoscopic digital still image camera compatible with stereoscopic display electronic photographic paper and the transmission system of stereoscopic display compatible electronic photographic paper is a contact type.

[Explanation of symbols]

100: Digital still image camera body, 101, 102 ...
Lens rotation movable part, 103: camera lens, 104: camera lens, 105: camera lens, 106: stereoscopic image display, 107: image rotation switch, 108: image photo flip-up switch, 109: image photo flip-down switch, 110 Shutter switch 111, memory card for image storage 112, window for transmitting image information light modulation signal 120, stereoscopic image display 121, solar cell 12,
2. Digital still image camera body-mounted electronic photographic paper, 12
3. Mounting connector, 201 (103) Camera lens 1, 202 (104) Camera lens 2, 203 (10
5) Camera lens 3, 204 Camera lens 205
To 208: CCD elements 1 to 4, 209: Image storage memory, 210: Microprocessor, 211: Display controller, 212: 213: Operation switch, 214: Memory card interface, 215: Optical transmission interface, 300: Stereoscopic display Electronic printing paper, 301: solar cell, 302: stereoscopic image display, 303: optical transmission interface, 304: microprocessor, 305: nonvolatile memory, 306: display controller, 401 to 409
... Digital still camera operation flow.

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A digital still image camera, comprising: two or more image capturing camera lenses for capturing still images viewed from two or more angles as photographic information; and each image information captured by each lens. Image processing means for connecting the three-dimensional still image to a three-dimensional still image, a three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper for stereoscopically displaying the three-dimensional still image obtained by the image information processing means, and a three-dimensional still image on the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper. And a means for transmitting. A three-dimensional digital still image camera compatible with electronic photographic paper. 2. A digital still image camera, comprising: two or more image capturing camera lenses for capturing still images viewed from two or more angles as photographic information; and each image information captured by each lens. Information processing means for connecting the three-dimensional still image information to a three-dimensional still image, means for image-compressing the three-dimensional still image information obtained by the image information processing means, and image expansion of the three-dimensional still image information obtained by compressing the image. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic printing paper, comprising: a three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper for three-dimensional display; and means for transmitting a three-dimensional still compressed image to the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper. 3. A means for receiving stereoscopic still image information transmitted from outside, an image storage unit for storing the stereoscopic still image information, and a character code and editing information relating to the contents of the image storage unit. An information storage unit for performing
Means for converting the stereoscopic still image information into a stereoscopic image and displaying the stereoscopic image on a display. 4. A three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper for a three-dimensional digital still image camera according to claim 2, wherein the means for receiving the three-dimensional still image compression information transmitted from the three-dimensional digital still image camera is made non-volatile. An image storage unit for storing the stereoscopic still image compression information, an information storage unit which is non-volatile and stores a character code and editing information relating to the contents of the image storage unit, and the stereoscopic still image compression information A three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper comprising: means for decompressing the image into three-dimensional image information; and means for converting the three-dimensional still image information into a three-dimensional image and displaying the same on a display device. Digital still camera. 5. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic printing paper according to claim 1, further comprising means for non-contact optical transmission of three-dimensional still image information to a three-dimensional display electronic printing paper. 3D digital still camera for paper. 6. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising means for non-contact electromagnetically modulating and transmitting stereoscopic still image information to a three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper. 3D digital still image camera compatible with electronic photographic paper. 7. The electronic photographic paper according to claim 1, wherein said electronic photographic paper is foldable. 8. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit for displaying a three-dimensional image on the camera body. 9. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper is brought into contact with the three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper to transmit and receive three-dimensional still image information. A three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic printing paper, characterized by comprising means. 10. The electronic printing paper device according to claim 3, wherein said electronic printing paper device is provided with a panorama rotation switch for viewing a panoramic image. 11. A three-dimensional display electronic photographic paper for a three-dimensional digital still image camera for electronic photographic paper according to claim 1, wherein a panorama rotation switch for viewing a panoramic image is provided. 3D digital still camera for paper.