Background technology
Electric torch is in the place that does not have lighting installation, as night emergency light be widely used.Along with light emitting diode (LED) light source of high brightness, high optical efficiency, long-life and low-power consumption and the development of battery technology, the usable range of electric torch is enlarging gradually.
Recently, along with extensively popularizing of the LED electric torch that has adopted led light source, people have developed can document image and the electric torch (hereinafter referred to as " audio/video flash light (AV electric torch) ") of sound.
United States Patent (USP) the 7th, 646, No. 973 and U.S.'s publication disclose the electric torch that is combined with camera chain 2006-00171700 number.These patents are provided with the hand rotary filter in order to satisfy visible rays screening-mode and infrared ray screening-mode at lens.
Korea S's publication 2000-17113 number, 2004-58381 number and U.S.'s publication disclose the technology that the picture signal that audio/video flash light is taken is carried out radio frequency (RF) transmission for 2005-0018044 number.
U.S.'s publication 2005-0018044 number, 2009-0066504 number disclose the technology of coming the positional information of radio frequency transmission audio/video flash light by GPS (GPS) receiver is set in inside.
Hence one can see that, and audio/video flash light also has the various functions such as record such as image and voice signal, RF transmission, positional information transmission except simple illumination functions, and the demand of this functional diversities is also constantly being increased.
In addition, along with the Composite of multifunction and the most advanced and sophisticated electronic technology of audio/video flash light, therefore the mounting structure complicated of its internals requires also increasingly strict to resistance to impact, corrosion resistance, high water proofing property, high-air-tightness etc.
As the range determination technology that can be equipped on electric torch, known comprise people by receiving the technology that its reflection wave is measured distance behind Emission Lasers or the ultrasound wave.Yet, for laser mode, although can realize miniaturization, and can merge arrange with light source and install easily, if but measure distantly, then receiving angle becomes very narrow, therefore its mensuration distance only is confined in tens of rice, and is easy to stick one's chin out owing to bright at night.For the ultrasound wave mode, owing to received the impact of hyperacoustic device structure, the merging setting of itself and light source is difficulty comparatively, and when the telemetering that carries out more than the 50m, deeply is subjected to the impact of ambient noise and in fact is difficult to reach the purpose of measuring distance.
Summary of the invention
The present invention proposes in order to address the above problem, its purpose is to provide a kind of and is need not to arrange in the situation of the distance measuring sensors such as laser or ultrasound wave, take current positional information as benchmark, can demonstrate in real time the portable field pen recorder of the distance of specific matters that help to estimate, to the coverage.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of position-based information to produce the portable field pen recorder of the inspection track of image conversion.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of position-based information and azimuth information and produce the portable field pen recorder of the inspection information of image conversion.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of position-based information track of will patrolling to be incorporated into cartographic information and to form the portable field pen recorder of the inspection information of image conversion.
Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of field notes method that can produce the inspection information of image conversion.
For the attainment of one's purpose, according to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of portable field pen recorder, comprising: the lighting module that possesses visual light source and infrared light supply; In order to take the photographing module of still image and dynamic image; The electronic compass of Magnetic Field is provided; In order to show the display module of described still image, described dynamic image and control interface; In order to the GPS module of locating information to be provided; Control module, wherein, described control module detects current location information and azimuth information according to the information that described GPS module and described electronic compass provide, and read corresponding to the map picture within predetermined angular range current location, centered by this position angle from map data base according to current location information and azimuth information, and map picture is shown in display module, described control module produces inspection track and inspection information according to described current location information and azimuth information simultaneously.
Wherein, described control module comprises: positional information generation unit, the locating information that provides based on the GPS module and generate current location information; Inspection trajectory generation unit, the current location information that produces according to described positional information generation unit generates the inspection track;
Calculation unit, position angle calculates out current azimuth information in order to the geomagnetic field information that provides according to described electronic compass;
The detection area generation unit produces centered by azimuth direction in order to the described azimuth information that calculates out according to calculation unit, described position angle, has respectively the isosceles triangle detection area of predetermined angular along left and right directions;
Inspection information generation unit, the isosceles triangle detection area that described detection area generation unit is produced is attached to described inspection track and generates the inspection information that comprises inspection scope and inspection direction.
Wherein, described control module also comprises data storage element, and this data storage element possesses image storage part, map data base, inspection track storage part and inspection information storage part.
Wherein, described control module also comprises: the object search unit searches out the positional information of at least one object that is recorded in described isosceles triangle detection area by accessing described map data base; Distance calculation unit is in order to the position of calculating at least one described object and the air line distance between the current detecting position.
Wherein, the coordinate information of described at least one object and described air line distance are shown in described display module.
Wherein, described predetermined angular is less than or equal to the picture angle of described photographing module.
Preferably, the present invention also comprises by the mode of radio communication and the wireless communication module of outside transceiving data.
Preferably, the present invention also comprises the input/output interface that is connected for external unit.
Wherein, described control module also comprises the image codec that picture signal is compressed processing.
Preferably, the present invention also comprises loudspeaker and microphone and the audio codec that the acoustic information from described microphone input is compressed processing.
For the attainment of one's purpose, according to a further aspect in the invention, provide a kind of field notes method, may further comprise the steps: detect current location information and azimuth information; Read map picture within the predetermined angular range according to detected current location information and azimuth information, and map picture is shown; Generate the inspection track according to described current location information and map picture; Generate the inspection trace information according to described inspection track and azimuth information.
And, also comprise according to described azimuth information producing centered by azimuth direction to have respectively the step of the isosceles triangle detection area of predetermined angular along left and right directions.
And, also comprise described isosceles triangle detection area is attached to described inspection trace information, generate the step of inspection information.
Preferably, show simultaneously captured dynamic image and the captured dynamic image map picture that is mutually related.
And, producing centered by azimuth direction according to described azimuth information, have respectively along left and right directions in the step of isosceles triangle detection area of predetermined angular, also comprise: the step that searches out the positional information of at least one object that is recorded in described isosceles triangle detection area; Calculate the position of at least one described object and the step of the air line distance between the current detecting position.
And, comprise the information of at least one object in the described inspection information.
Wherein, the information of described object comprises the coordinate information of this object and the air line distance from current detecting position to this object.
And the present invention also comprises the step by wireless communication module and external unit transceiving data.
And the present invention also comprises the image processing step that picture signal is encoded or decoded.
And, also comprise the audio frequency treatment step that voice signal is encoded or decoded.
According to portable field pen recorder provided by the invention and field notes method, need not the extra distance measuring sensor that arranges such as high prices such as laser or ultrasound waves, but utilize positional information, namely utilize the range information of the main things that in monitor area, is recorded can estimate easily the relative distance that is monitored thing.
And the present invention is according to inspection track, inspection scope and directional information, the inspection information of synthetic image, the graphical analysis of can patrolling thus.
Embodiment
Below, describe embodiments of the invention in detail with reference to accompanying drawing.It will be understood by those of skill in the art that the present invention to carry out various changes and possess variform.At this, take illustrated specific embodiment as benchmark, the present invention is described in detail.And this is not to represent that the present invention is limited to this specific embodiment, and in the situation that does not exceed thought of the present invention and technical scope, all changes, equivalent and sub that the present invention is made all are within the scope of the present invention.
Need to prove that the field notes device among the present invention is contained and can be recorded and the various device of reproduced image, such as the electric torch that possesses camera function and possess digital camera, video camera, mobile communication terminal of illumination functions etc.
Fig. 1 is the main composition block scheme according to the field notes device of the embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2 is the block scheme that the formation of the lighting module among Fig. 1 is shown; Fig. 3 is the block scheme that the formation of the input/output module among Fig. 1 is shown; Fig. 4 is the block scheme that the formation of the control module among Fig. 1 is shown.
As seen from the figure, field notes device according to the present invention comprises lighting module 100, photographing module 110, GPS module 120, electronic compass 130, display module 140, power module 150, input/output module 160 and control module 400.
Described lighting module 100 can comprise visual light source 1001 and infrared light supply 1002, this visual light source 1001 can be by the high-brightness LED element (for example, 150~450Lm White LED module of U.S. CREE company) consists of, this infrared light supply 1002 can be made of the infrared LEDs element, and can arrange a plurality of.
Described photographing module 110 is used for taking rest image and dynamic image, can comprise the lens module of fixed-focus mode and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) (CMOS) imageing sensor of full HD (FULL HD), and described lens module has the infrared ray optical gate (Shutter) on the receipts light path that is located at cmos image sensor.This infrared ray optical gate namely under the infrared ray screening-mode (Night), only makes infrared light pass through at the infrared light screening-mode, and under the visible light screening-mode, and the infrared ray optical gate moves to outside the opticpath and allows visible light to pass through.Photographing module 110 combines with the light absorbing part of cmos image sensor.As cmos image sensor, for example can use 1/2.5 inch full HD imageing sensor (ST9P001) of MICRON company.
Described electronic compass 130 is used for providing two dimension or three-dimensional geomagnetic field information, so that calculation unit, position angle described later calculates the azimuth information with respect to the current institute of the field notes device direction of illumination of direct north.
Described display module 140 is used for showing by described taking module 110 captured rest image and dynamic image, and shows the inspection information that comprises the track of patrolling.Described display module 140 can adopt LCDs, also can adopt the touch display screen that has both input function.
Described power module 150 is used for providing necessary driving electric power to the field notes device, can adopt one or more 18650 lithium ion batteries.
Described input/output module 160 can comprise external memory card slot 16 01, signal connection socket 1602, button section 1603.Described external memory card slot 16 01 is used for external storage component being set (for example, TF (micro SD card) flash card), to be used for preserving the data such as the captured rest image of described photographing module 110 or dynamic image, therefore described external memory card slot 16 01 satisfies the specification of various storage cards.Signal connection socket 1602 is used for the field notes device is directly connected in external display and watches the captured image of field notes device, can connect HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) (HDMI:High-Definition Multimedia Interface) connectors such as aberration terminal (YPbPr) and stereo audio terminal.Signal connection socket 1602 can also satisfy USB2.0 connector specification.Described button section 1603 is used for inputting various control commands, such as the unlatching that can control lighting module 100 or close and adjust the brightness size, take rest image or dynamic image etc.Field notes device according to the present invention can also comprise wireless communication module 170, with by wireless mode and external unit transceiving data.
Described control module 400 is used for controlling lighting module 100, photographing module 110, GPS module 120, electronic compass 130, display module 140, input/output module 160, therefore possesses control circuit and power circuit in described control module 400.Described control module 400 comprises center-control section 414, is made of microprocessor or microcomputer chip; Data storage cell 416 comprises such as volatile memory device and ROM (read-only memory) (ROM) such as DDR3 dynamic RAM (DRAM), perhaps such as nonvolatile semiconductor memory members such as EEPROM or flash memory component.
Control module 400 is controlled the switching of visual light source 1001 and infrared light supply 1002 and brightness etc. by visual light source drive part 402 and infrared light supply drive division 404, receive picture signal by image processor 406 from photographing module 110, carry out afterwards the image Compression of H-264/MPEG4 mode at image codec 408.And, control module 400 shows image and Word message by display driver section 409 and screen display expressed portion 410 to display module 140, will carry out audio compression in HQ ACC mode from the audio-frequency information of loudspeaker and microphone input by audio codec 412 and process.
And, control module 400 sends by wireless communication module 170 compressed image and voice data by data input-output unit 418 to the outside, perhaps by external memory card slot 16 01 to external storage component (for example, TF (micro SD card) flash card (32GB, maximum can be stored 16 hours contents)) memory image and voice data, perhaps directly upload image and voice data or from PC downloading map data storehouse etc. to TV or display presentation video or to USB2.0 agreement PC by signal connection socket 1602.
Center-control section 414 comprises positional information generation unit 414a, position angle calculation unit 414b, distance calculation unit 414c, detection area generation unit 414d, object search unit 414e, inspection trajectory generation unit 414f and inspection information generation unit 414g.Described positional information generation unit 414a receives satellite information and calculates current position from GPS module 120, produces current positional information with this.Azimuth information calculation unit 414b receives two dimension or three-dimensional geomagnetic field information from electronic compass 130, thereby calculates the azimuth information with respect to the current institute direction of illumination of direct north.Distance calculation unit 414b calculates the range information between current location information and the object.Detection area generation unit 414d produces and has predetermined angular the detection area of the isosceles triangle of (for example, 45 °) centered by the position angle that azimuth information calculation unit 414b calculates.At this, the size of detection area is limited within the maximum picture angle for the photographing module 110 of photographic images.
Object search unit 414e retrieves the coordinate information of the object that is recorded in advance map data base in the scope of the detection area of isosceles triangle.The positional information of the searched object that goes out will provide to distance calculation unit 414b, calculate thus the air line distance between current location and the object.Described coordinate information will show by display module 140 with the air line distance that calculates.
Inspection trajectory generation unit 414f produces the trace information of current location information on time shaft, and the inspection track that produces can with map data base in corresponding map be associated.That is, described inspection track is will each discrete positional information to connect into continuous curve according to the time and form.
The inspection track that inspection information generation unit 414g produces based on described inspection trajectory generation unit 414f in conjunction with the detection area of isosceles triangle, produces monitor area and the inspection pattern information of patrolling.
In the present embodiment, although inspection trajectory generation unit 414f and inspection information generation unit 414g are set respectively, those skilled in the art should know that described inspection trajectory generation unit 414f and inspection information generation unit 414g can merge into a module and work.
Data storage cell 416 comprises image storage part 416a, map data base 416b, inspection track storage part 416c and inspection information storage part 414d.By photographing module 110 captured still image, dynamic image, can retrieve by filename, shooting time, inspection zone and position angle etc. by stored image file with filename storage for image storage part 416a.Construct the electronic map data of monitor area in the map data base 416b, at this, map datum for example can directly be downloaded the Google Maps data and use.And, in map data base 416b, record the positional information (longitude and latitude information) of main target thing in the monitor area.The data of map data base 416b can be upgraded by wireless communication module 170 or signal connection socket 1602 and be up-to-date data.
The inspection trace information that storage inspection trajectory generation unit 414f produces in the inspection track storage part 416c, and the inspection trace information comprises the information such as inspection person, inspection zero-time, inspection concluding time, inspection route and position angle.
The inspection information that storage inspection information generation unit 414g produces in the inspection information storage part 414d, and inspection information is associated with the inspection track, and comprise the range information of patrolling such as inspection direction on the route of respectively patrolling, isosceles triangle detection area.
Power supply unit 422 provides constant operating voltage to each position after accepting supply voltage from power module 150 (such as battery).At this, use the low-voltages such as 1.8V, 2.5V and 2.8V as operating voltage.
Each parts of control module 400 inside interconnect by internal bus, thus mutual swap data and control signal.
Below, the field notes method of using above-mentioned field notes device is described.
Field notes method according to the present invention may further comprise the steps: detect current location information and azimuth information; Read map picture within the predetermined angular range according to detected current location information and azimuth information, and map picture is shown; Generate the inspection track according to described current location information and map picture; Generate the inspection trace information according to described inspection track and azimuth information.
Below, be the field notes method that specifies according to the embodiment of the invention in conjunction with Fig. 5,6.
At first, when beginning to patrol, start taking module, so that each scene and object are taken (S100).Then, based on the locating information that the GPS module provides, calculate current positional information (S101).Then, show captured dynamic image by display module at regional area, and at the remaining partial display of display module and the captured dynamic image map picture (S102) that is mutually related.Described dynamic image will be stored in image storage part.At this moment, the current location information that provides according to the positional information generation unit reads cartographic information from the map data base of data storage cell, thus this cartographic information is shown in the part of display module.And, can make display module full screen display dynamic image or map picture as required.Then, generate inspection track (S103) according to the current location information that produces at map picture.Obviously, described inspection track is will each discrete positional information to connect into continuous curve according to the time and form.Then, the base area Magnetic Field is calculated out the azimuth information (S104) of current location, and produces centered by azimuth direction according to described azimuth information, has respectively the isosceles triangle detection area (S105) of predetermined angular along left and right directions.Then, the azimuth information that is calculated out is attached to described inspection track and generates inspection trace information (S106), and the inspection trace information that generates is saved in inspection track storage part.Then, described isosceles triangle detection area is attached to described inspection trace information and generates inspection information (S107), and the inspection information that generates is saved in the inspection information storage part.
At this moment, can by wireless communication module will be stored in the inspection track storage part and the inspection information storage part inspection trace information and inspection information be sent to external unit.Wherein, described inspection trace information comprises the information such as inspection person, inspection zero-time, inspection concluding time, inspection route and position angle, and inspection information is associated with the inspection track, and comprises the inspection range information such as inspection direction on the route of respectively patrolling, isosceles triangle detection area.
And, in described step (S105), can also comprise: the step (S1051) that searches out the information of at least one object that is recorded in described isosceles triangle detection area by accessing described map data base; And calculate the position of at least one described object and the step (S1052) of the air line distance between the current detecting position.Wherein, the information of described object comprises the coordinate information of object, and this coordinate information can be contained in inspection information with the air line distance that calculates.And, when forming inspection information, can highlight at least one object on the inspection track.Wherein, the content that highlights can comprise coordinate information, the air line distance from shooting point to this object of eye-catching color mark and this object.Obviously, described shooting point is a bit that is positioned on the inspection track, and described object is within the isosceles triangle detection area of this point.And at least one the object information that highlights can be attached to dynamic image and be stored in image storage part.Thus, when reproducing the dynamic image of storing, can see by dynamic image the positional information of at least one object in the captured image.
According to the present invention as above, can obtain the inspection information of image conversion, and also comprise the positional information etc. of temporal information, azimuth information and main target thing in should inspection information, therefore be conducive to inspection information is carried out graphical analysis.
The invention is not restricted to above-described embodiment, without departing from the present invention, can carry out various changes and modifications.