CN112118390A

CN112118390A - Camera control method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN112118390A
Application number: CN202010962150.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 钟浩华
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-14
Filing date: 2020-09-14
Publication date: 2020-12-22
Also published as: WO2022052613A1

Abstract

The application discloses a control method and a control device of a camera, electronic equipment and a storage medium, wherein the control method of the camera is applied to the electronic equipment, and comprises the following steps: displaying a control interface of the camera; responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position; acquiring a real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position; and displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface. The method can display the rotation progress of the camera when the camera is controlled to rotate.

Description

Camera control method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of smart home technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for controlling a camera, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

Background

In the smart home technology, the monitoring technology is widely applied as an important part of the currently emerging smart home field. In the field of smart home, a house is usually monitored by an installed camera, and a user can control a position shot by the camera on a control interface displayed by an electronic device (e.g., a smart phone, a tablet computer, etc.), so as to view monitoring contents in different monitoring position areas. However, when the camera is controlled to rotate, the user cannot see the state of the camera when the camera rotates, and the user experience is low.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the foregoing problems, the present application provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a camera, an electronic device, and a storage medium.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for controlling a camera, which is applied to an electronic device, and the method includes: displaying a control interface of the camera; responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position; acquiring a real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position; and displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a control apparatus for a camera, which is applied to an electronic device, and the apparatus includes: the system comprises an interface display module, a rotation control module, a progress acquisition module and a progress display module, wherein the interface display module is used for displaying a control interface of the camera; the rotation control module is used for responding to control operation for controlling the camera to rotate and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, and the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position; the progress acquisition module is used for acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera; and the progress display module is used for displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, including: one or more processors; a memory; one or more application programs, wherein the one or more application programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs configured to perform the method of controlling a camera provided by the first aspect described above.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a program code is stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and the program code may be called by a processor to execute the method for controlling a camera provided in the first aspect.

The scheme that this application provided, through the control interface who demonstrates the camera, the response is used for controlling camera pivoted control operation, send the rotation instruction to the camera, this rotation instruction is used for controlling this camera and rotates to the target location, and acquire the real-time rotation progress of camera, this real-time rotation progress is used for the progress that the representation camera rotated to the target location, then show the real-time rotation progress in control interface, thereby can realize when controlling the camera and rotate, demonstrate the progress that the camera rotated the in-process, make the user know the state when the camera rotated, promote user experience.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of an application scenario provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 shows a flowchart of a control method of a camera according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 3 shows a first interface schematic diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 shows a second interface schematic diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 shows a flowchart of a control method of a camera according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 shows a third interface schematic diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 7 shows a flowchart of a control method of a camera according to yet another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 8 shows a fourth interface schematic provided by the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 shows a flowchart of step S330 in a control method for a camera according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 shows a schematic diagram of determining position coordinates of a camera according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 11 shows a fifth interface diagram provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 12 shows a sixth interface schematic diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 13 shows a seventh interface schematic diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 14 shows an eighth interface diagram provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 15 shows a block diagram of a control device of a camera according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 16 is a block diagram of an electronic device for executing a control method of a camera according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 17 is a storage unit for storing or carrying a program code implementing a control method of a camera according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application.

With the continuous improvement of living standard, people pay more attention to the problems of safety and convenience, and the concept of a home intelligent system is generated. The intelligent home is characterized in that a house is used as a platform, facilities related to home life are integrated by utilizing a comprehensive wiring technology, a network communication technology, a safety precaution technology, an automatic control technology and an audio and video technology, and an efficient management system for house facilities and family schedule affairs is constructed.

In the smart home technology, the monitoring technology is widely applied as an important part of the currently emerging smart home field. In the monitoring technology, a camera is usually installed in a house to realize monitoring in the house, in addition, a user can check a monitoring picture through electronic equipment (such as a smart phone, a tablet personal computer and the like), and remote control and adjustment can be performed on the shooting position of the camera through the electronic equipment.

In the related art, when a user remotely controls and adjusts the shooting position of the camera through the electronic device, the user usually remotely sends a control instruction through the electronic device, and observes a monitoring picture in real time, and rotates the camera in the up-down direction, the left-right direction, and thus the view range of the camera is the position range which is required to be viewed by the user. Certainly, in some related technologies, the position of the shooting area of the camera may be set as a frequently-watching position, and an angle corresponding to the frequently-watching position is recorded, and when a user needs to view the monitoring picture of the frequently-watching position next time, by selecting the frequently-watching position, the camera can be quickly controlled to turn to the angle corresponding to the recording, so that the user can conveniently view the monitoring picture of a certain specific location.

The inventor finds out through long-term research that the user can not look up the state of the camera when rotating to the required position by controlling the camera to rotate through the electronic equipment, so that the user can not know in real time how long the user can rotate to the required position and can only confirm that the camera rotates to the required position when waiting for the monitoring picture to be completely static, the experience uncertainty is large, and the user experience is low.

In view of the above problems, the inventor provides a camera control method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which can display the progress of the camera in the rotation process when the camera is controlled to rotate, so that a user can know the state of the camera in the rotation process, and user experience is improved. A specific control method of the camera is described in detail in the following embodiments.

An application environment of the control method for the camera provided by the embodiment of the present application is described below.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 shows a network structure diagram of an application scenario in the embodiment of the present application, where the application scenario may include an intelligent home system 10, and the intelligent home system 10 may include an electronic device 100, a home device 200, a server 300, and a router 400, and the electronic device may establish a wireless connection with the router 400, and the home device 200 establishes a wireless connection with the router 400, so as to implement data interaction between the electronic device 100 and the home device. In addition, the electronic device 100 and the router 400 are communicatively connected to the server 400, and the electronic device 100 may perform data interaction with the home appliance 200 through the server 400 and the router 400. The household devices 200 may be air conditioners, lighting fixtures, smart lamps, cameras, smart sockets, wireless switches, smart curtain motors, smart speakers, and various sensors (e.g., body sensors, door and window sensors, smoke alarms, etc.). Through the above data interaction manner, the electronic device 100 may implement remote control of the camera, for example, control of rotation, operating parameters, and the like of the camera.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a control method for a camera according to an embodiment of the present application. In a specific embodiment, the control method of the camera is applied to the control device 400 of the camera shown in fig. 15 and the electronic apparatus 100 (fig. 16) provided with the control device 400 of the camera. The following will describe a specific flow of the embodiment by taking an electronic device as an example, and it is understood that the electronic device applied in the embodiment may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, a smart watch, a notebook computer, and the like, which is not limited herein. As will be described in detail with respect to the flow shown in fig. 2, the method for controlling the camera may specifically include the following steps:

step S110: and displaying the control interface of the camera.

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic equipment can display the control interface of the camera, and the control interface can be used for remotely controlling the shooting position, the working mode, the working parameters and the like of the camera in the intelligent home system. The shooting position of the camera can be a position area corresponding to the visual field range of the camera; the working mode of the camera may be a scene mode in which the camera is currently working, such as a night mode, a day mode, a sleep mode, a snapshot mode, and the like, and the specific working mode may not be limited; the working parameters may refer to parameters of the camera currently working, and these parameters may be adjustable parameters, so as to control and adjust these parameters, for example, the working parameters may include focal length, automatic gain control, backlight compensation, white balance, signal-to-noise ratio, and the like, and the specific working parameters may not be limited.

In some embodiments, the control interface may include controls or options for implementing different control functions for the camera, and when the electronic device detects an operation on the controls or options, corresponding control of the camera may be triggered. The control interface can further comprise a monitoring picture, namely an area corresponding to a monitoring image collected by the camera, and a user can check the monitoring picture while remotely controlling the camera in the control interface, so that the user can conveniently control the camera according to the monitoring picture. Of course, the specific control interface may not be limited.

In some embodiments, the electronic device may present a device list for managing and controlling the home devices, where the device list may include controls corresponding to different home devices. Specifically, a client for managing the home devices may be installed in the electronic device, the electronic device may operate the client, and the device list may be displayed when a selection operation of the device list is detected. When the electronic equipment detects the selection operation of the control corresponding to the camera, the selection operation can be responded, and the current display interface is displayed as the control interface of the camera. For example, referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 shows an interface schematic diagram of an equipment list interface a1, where the equipment list interface a1 includes controls corresponding to multiple home equipment, and in addition, a user may add equipment in the equipment list interface, so as to meet requirements of the user on adding new equipment, and the like, and of course, a specific equipment list interface may not be limited.

Step S120: and responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position.

In the embodiment of the application, after the control interface of the camera is displayed, the electronic device may detect an operation in the control interface, for example, detect a click operation, a press operation, a slide operation, and the like in the control interface. The operation in the control interface may be an operation on a control used for controlling the camera in the control interface, and may also be an operation on another area, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the control interface may include controls for controlling the camera to rotate in four directions, i.e., up, down, left, and right, respectively. As an implementation manner, the control interface may include four rotation controls, each of the four rotation controls corresponds to one direction, and by detecting operations on the four rotation controls, the camera may be controlled to rotate according to the operations on the rotation controls, so as to control the shooting position of the camera to change; as another embodiment, the control interface may include a control for controlling the rotation of the camera, the control includes four touch areas, each of the four touch areas corresponds to a rotation direction, and the camera may be controlled to rotate by detecting a touch operation on the four touch areas, so as to control the change of the shooting position of the camera. The operation of the control for controlling the camera may not be limited, and may be, for example, a pressing operation; the specific form of the control for controlling the camera may not be limited.

The electronic equipment can store the position angle of the camera adjusted each time according to the operation of the user, receive the position name input by the user, and store the position name and the position angle, so that the electronic equipment can store the historical position shot by the camera each time and the position angle corresponding to the historical position. When the electronic equipment displays the control interface, the control interface can comprise an input area for inputting historical positions, the electronic equipment can read position angles corresponding to the target positions according to the target positions input by users, generate corresponding rotation instructions based on the read position angles and send the rotation instructions to the camera to control the camera to rotate to the position angles corresponding to the target positions, and therefore users only need to input shooting positions needing to be checked on the control interface, and the camera can be controlled to rotate to different angles.

For example, referring to fig. 4, in the control interface a2, a monitored image area A3 corresponding to a monitored image captured by a camera is included, and in addition, an area for inputting adjustment may be displayed in an area other than the monitored image area A3, and a user may input a target position to which adjustment is required, for example, "sofa of living room" in fig. 4, and the electronic device sends a rotation instruction to the camera by responding to the input target position, thereby controlling the camera to rotate to the target position.

In some embodiments, after the camera is installed indoors and is networked, the electronic device may acquire an image shot by the camera at each shooting angle and identify a location name corresponding to each shooting location according to the shot image. And then, storing the identified position name and the corresponding shooting angle, so that the electronic equipment can generate a rotation instruction according to the target position input by the user in the control interface and the stored shooting angle corresponding to the target position to control the camera to rotate to the position angle corresponding to the target position.

In this embodiment, the electronic device may recognize location names corresponding to images at different shooting angles using a pre-trained location recognition model. The position recognition model can be obtained by training an initial model according to a large number of indoor images of houses with different house types and the position name labeled on each indoor image, and the initial model can be a neural network model and the like, which is not limited herein. Specifically, the electronic device may receive an input house type diagram, select a corresponding image recognition model according to the house type diagram, and input images shot by the camera at different shooting angles to the position recognition model, where the position recognition model may recognize a corresponding position name according to the input images. It can be understood that, because house types are different, positions of areas in the house are also different, and characteristics of area images of the same house type in the same position area are the same, the image recognition model can be trained correspondingly according to different house types, so that when the image recognition model recognizes position names corresponding to images of various shooting angles, an obtained recognition result is more accurate. The position recognition model may be stored in the electronic device or in the server, and is not limited herein, when the position recognition model is stored in the electronic device, the electronic device may directly call the image recognition model to perform recognition, when the position recognition model is stored in the server, the electronic device may send images of different shooting positions to the server, and the server calls the position recognition model to recognize a position name and returns the position name to the electronic device.

In the embodiment of the application, when the electronic equipment detects the control operation which is input in the control interface and used for controlling the rotation of the camera, the electronic equipment can respond to the control operation used for controlling the rotation of the camera and send a rotation instruction to the server for managing the intelligent household equipment, and the server is used for sending the rotation instruction to the camera, so that the electronic equipment is utilized to remotely control the camera to rotate to a target position.

In some embodiments, since when controlling the camera to rotate, it may be that the camera is in a stationary state at this time, and it may also be in a rotating process, for example, a user is in a process of controlling the camera to rotate to a specified position, it may be that the camera is controlled to rotate to a target position from a position at which the camera is controlled to rotate to the target position in response to the above control operation. The position in response to the control operation may be a position at which the camera does not rotate, or a position at which the camera detects the control operation in the previous rotation process and responds to the control operation. The target position refers to a shooting position of the camera, that is, the shooting position of the camera is controlled in the embodiment of the present application, so that the camera rotates to a shooting position required by a user.

Step S130: and acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position.

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic equipment can also acquire the real-time rotation progress of the camera in the rotation process of the camera while sending the rotation instruction to the camera. The real-time rotation progress is used for representing the real-time progress of the process of rotating the camera to the target position, and the real-time rotation progress corresponds to the current moment. Here, the rotation progress may refer to a degree of progress of the rotation of the camera, that is, a degree of progress of the rotation of the camera from the position at the time of the response rotation to the target position, for example, 60 ° is required to rotate from the position at the time of the response rotation to the target position, and the rotation progress is 50 ° when the rotation has been performed by 30 ° at present.

In some embodiments, the electronic device may obtain a real-time rotation progress of the camera from a server for managing the smart home device, where the server may calculate an angle required to rotate the camera according to a position of the camera when responding to the above control operation and a target position, and then calculate a ratio of the rotated angle to the angle required to rotate according to the rotated angle reported by the camera in real time and the calculated angle required to rotate, and use the ratio as the real-time rotation progress.

In other embodiments, the electronic device may determine a position angle corresponding to the target position according to the target position and a stored corresponding relationship between each shooting position and the position angle, then determine an angle to be rotated according to the position angle corresponding to the position of the camera when the control operation is responded and the position angle corresponding to the target position, and then calculate the real-time rotation progress according to the rotation speed and the angle to be rotated.

Of course, the manner in which the electronic device acquires that the camera is rotated from the position at the time of responding to the control operation to the target position may not be limited.

Step S140: and displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

In this application embodiment, after the electronic equipment acquires the real-time rotation progress, the real-time rotation progress can be displayed in the control interface, so that the user can check the progress of the rotation process in real time after triggering the control of rotating the camera to the target position, and the user can know the rotation process of the camera conveniently. The electronic equipment can continuously acquire the real-time rotation progress and update the real-time rotation progress displayed in the control interface, so that the rotation progress in the whole rotation process is displayed.

In some embodiments, the manner of implementing the rotation progress displayed by the electronic device may not be limited, for example, the electronic device may also display the real-time rotation progress in the form of text, and specifically, display the real-time rotation progress in the form of percentage text.

The control method of the camera, through the control interface who demonstrates the camera, the response is used for controlling camera pivoted control operation, send the rotation instruction to the camera, this rotation instruction is used for controlling this camera and rotates to the target location, and acquire the real-time rotation progress of camera, this real-time rotation progress is used for the progress that the representation camera rotated to the target location, then show the real-time rotation progress in control interface, thereby can realize when controlling the camera and rotate, demonstrate the progress of camera rotation in-process, make the user know the state when the camera rotates, promote user experience.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a control method for a camera according to another embodiment of the present application. The control method of the camera is applied to the electronic device, and will be described in detail with respect to the flow shown in fig. 5, and the control method of the camera may specifically include the following steps:

step S210: and displaying a control interface of the camera, wherein the control interface comprises a first designated area, and the first designated area is used for displaying the monitoring image acquired by the camera in real time.

In the embodiment of the application, the control interface may include a first designated area, and the first designated area is used for displaying a monitoring image acquired by the camera in real time. The first designated area can be understood as an area where the monitoring picture is located, and the monitoring picture is displayed in the control interface, so that when a user controls the camera, the monitoring picture can be used as a reference to determine whether the camera is adjusted to a required position. For example, when the user determines that the position to which the camera is adjusted is not the area that the user wants to shoot according to the monitored image area, the shooting position of the camera can be controlled again to be adjusted to the position required by the user.

Step S220: and responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position.

Step S230: and acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position.

In the embodiment of the present application, step S220 and step S230 may refer to the contents of the foregoing embodiments, which are not described herein again.

Step S240: and displaying the real-time rotation progress in a second designated area in the control interface in a progress bar mode, wherein the second designated area is located in an area, except for the first designated area, in the control interface.

In the embodiment of the application, when the electronic device shows the real-time rotation progress in the control interface, the real-time rotation progress can be shown in a second designated area in the control interface in a progress bar mode. The progress bar, namely, the speed, the completion degree, the size of the remaining unfinished task amount, the processing time possibly required and the like of the processing task are displayed in a picture form in real time when the computer processes the task.

In some embodiments, in the progress bar displayed by the electronic device, the progress in the progress bar is positively correlated with the real-time rotation progress, that is, the larger the progress in the progress bar is, the larger the real-time rotation progress is, so that the user can know the rotation progress of the camera rotated to the target position by the position when the camera is operated by the response control according to the progress bar.

In the embodiment of the application, the second designated area may be located in an area other than the first designated area in the control interface, so that a user may know the real-time rotation progress of the camera through the progress bar of the second designated area while viewing the monitoring image in the first designated area, and the progress bar is displayed in other areas other than the monitoring image area in the control interface, so that the display of the monitoring image area may not be affected, and the user experience is improved. Wherein, the specific position of the second designated area in the area other than the first designated area in the above control interface may not be limited.

For example, referring to fig. 4 and fig. 6, in the control interface a2, a first designated area A3 corresponding to the monitoring image collected by the camera is included, and in addition, an area for inputting an adjustment position may be displayed in an area other than the first designated area A3, so that a user may input a target position to be adjusted, for example, "sofa of living room" in fig. 4, and the electronic device sends a rotation instruction to the camera by responding to the input target position, thereby controlling the camera to rotate to the target position; in addition, while a rotation command is transmitted to the camera, a progress bar a4 may be displayed in an area where an adjustment position is input, and the progress bar a4 is located below the monitor image area A3, so that a user can be made to know the rotation progress of the camera at a glance.

The control method of the camera provided by the embodiment of the application responds to the control operation for controlling the rotation of the camera by showing the control interface of the camera and sends the rotation instruction to the camera, the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position and acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera, the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position, then the real-time rotation progress is displayed in an area except a first appointed area for displaying the monitoring image in the control interface in a progress bar mode, so that the user can know the real-time rotation progress of the camera through the progress bar while checking the monitoring image, in addition, the progress bar is displayed in the area except the first designated area in the control interface, so that the display of the monitoring image area is not influenced, and the user experience is improved.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a control method for a camera according to another embodiment of the present application. The control method of the camera is applied to the electronic device, and will be described in detail with respect to the flow shown in fig. 7, and the control method of the camera may specifically include the following steps:

step S310: and displaying the control interface of the camera, wherein the control interface comprises a first designated area and a second designated area, the first designated area is used for displaying the monitoring images acquired by the camera in real time, and the second designated area comprises interface thumbnails of the monitoring images corresponding to a plurality of historical viewing positions.

In the embodiment of the application, a control interface of a camera displayed by an electronic device may include a first designated area for displaying a monitoring image acquired by the camera in real time, and a second designated area for displaying interface thumbnails of the monitoring images corresponding to a plurality of historical viewing positions. The first designated area can be understood as an area for displaying a monitoring picture, and the monitoring picture is displayed in the control interface, so that when a user controls the camera, the monitoring picture can be used as a reference to determine whether the camera is adjusted to a required position; the history checking position can be the shooting position of user history adjustment camera to electronic equipment records has the position angle of every history checking position corresponding camera, thereby electronic equipment can look over the position angle that the position corresponds according to the history that the user selected, generates the rotation instruction and sends to the camera, can realize that control camera rotates to history checking position. The interface thumbnail corresponding to each historical viewing position may be generated according to a monitoring image of the viewing position taken in the history, and of course, the specific content of the interface thumbnail may not be limited.

In some scenes, the viewing positions that the user can often view are set, and the historical viewing positions are set to be more than the viewing positions, and the electronic equipment can be displayed in the displayed control interface, so that the user can select the viewing positions, and the camera is controlled to rotate to the required viewing positions for shooting. For example, referring to fig. 8, the control interface a2 may include an interface thumbnail a5 of a monitoring image corresponding to a frequent-viewing position, such as an interface thumbnail corresponding to "at sofa in living room" and an interface thumbnail corresponding to "balcony in living room" shown in fig. 8.

In some embodiments, the control interface may include controls with different functions, such as controls corresponding to functions of "sleep", "frequent location", "snapshot", "record", "album" and the like shown in fig. 8, where the "sleep" control is used to control the camera to be in the sleep mode; the 'frequently-watching position' control is used for triggering and displaying the interface thumbnail corresponding to the frequently-watching position; the 'snapshot' control is used for controlling the camera to take a snapshot; the video recording control is used for checking the monitoring video; the album control is used to trigger the album for viewing the monitored images. Of course, the function control specifically included in the control interface may not be limited.

In this embodiment, when the electronic device detects a selection operation of a control of the "frequently-watching position", an interface thumbnail corresponding to the frequently-watching position may be displayed in the control interface. When a control corresponding to a certain function in the above controls is selected, the color of the selected control can be distinguished from the colors of other controls, so that a user can know the currently selected control.

In addition, the electronic device may add the frequently-watched position according to an operation by the user. As one way, for example, as shown in fig. 8, a "+" may be displayed in one of the interface thumbnails corresponding to the frequently-watched position, and when the electronic device detects a touch operation on the interface thumbnail, an addition of the frequently-watched position may be triggered; for another example, the electronic device may detect a duration of the continuous pressing when the pressing operation of the bottom area in the control interface is detected, and trigger the addition of the frequently-seen position when the duration of the continuous pressing exceeds a specified duration, which may be 2 seconds, 3 seconds, and the like, and is not limited herein. Thus, the addition of the user to the frequent location can be achieved.

When the addition of the frequently-seen position is triggered, the control interface can comprise controls for controlling the camera to rotate in the up, down, left and right directions respectively, so that a user can control the camera to rotate to a required position, and then the position angle after the rotation is finished is recorded; and then, according to the position name edited by the user, the position name and the recorded position angle are stored in an associated manner, so that the addition of the frequently-watched position is completed.

Step S320: and responding to selection operation of an interface thumbnail corresponding to a target position, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera head, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera head to rotate to the target position, and the target position is any one of the plurality of historical viewing positions.

In the embodiment of the application, when the electronic device detects the selection operation of the interface thumbnail, the target position corresponding to the selected interface thumbnail can be determined according to the selected interface thumbnail, then a rotation instruction is generated according to the recorded position angle corresponding to the target position, and the rotation instruction is sent to the camera, so that the camera is controlled to rotate to the target position. The selection operation may be a click operation, a double click operation, a press operation with a press duration exceeding a preset duration, or the like, which is not limited herein.

Step S330: and acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position.

In this application embodiment, electronic equipment can calculate the real-time rotation progress of camera by oneself according to the slew velocity of camera to can show the rotation progress of camera more in real time.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 9, step S330 may include:

step S331: and acquiring the position of the camera in response to the control operation as an initial position.

In this manner, the electronic device may send a camera position acquisition request to a server that manages the smart home device, and then receive a camera position returned by the server.

In some modes, the camera position obtaining request can be used for requesting to obtain the recorded position of the camera in response to the control operation from the server, wherein the electronic device can add the time in response to the control operation in the camera position obtaining request to obtain the position of the camera in response to the control operation; and then, the electronic equipment receives the position of the camera in response control operation returned by the server.

Step S332: and determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the initial position, the target position and the rotation speed of the camera.

In this embodiment, the electronic device may calculate the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the initial position obtained above, the target position to which the camera needs to be rotated, and the rotation speed of the camera. Specifically, the electronic device may determine a rotation angle of the camera to be rotated based on an initial position and a target position, where the initial position and the target position are both position angles; then determining the total time length of the camera to be rotated based on the rotation angle and the rotation speed; and then determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the ratio of the rotated time length of the camera at the current moment to the total time length.

For example, referring to fig. 10, when recording the angular orientation of the camera, a rectangular coordinate system may be used for recording, the angle of the camera for sitting and rotating to the right may be represented by an X-axis, the angle of the camera for up and down may be represented by a Y-axis, the unit on the X-axis and the Y-axis may be an angle, and one coordinate represents one position. When the camera needs to be controlled to move to the target position, the camera actually moves along one or more straight lines, for example, the camera needs to move three times along three straight lines from the position a to the position B in fig. 10. Therefore, under the condition that the position coordinates of the initial position of the camera in the coordinate system and the rotating speed of the camera are known, the total time length needing to be rotated can be accurately calculated, and the ratio of the rotated time length to the total time length is obtained, so that the rotating progress is obtained.

Of course, the specific manner of calculating the real-time rotation schedule of the camera may not be limited.

Step S340: and displaying progress bars around the interface thumbnail corresponding to the target position, wherein the progress bars are used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

In this application embodiment, when electronic equipment shows the real-time rotation progress of camera in control interface, can show the progress bar around the interface thumbnail that the target location corresponds above, this progress bar is used for the real-time rotation progress of sign, that is to say, the progress of progress bar sign can correspond with the real-time rotation progress, and the user can learn the real-time rotation progress of camera through observing the progress bar.

For example, referring to fig. 8, fig. 11 and fig. 12, after the electronic device detects a selection operation on the interface thumbnail of "balcony of living room", a rotation instruction for controlling the camera to rotate to the shooting position of "balcony of living room" may be sent, and a real-time rotation progress of the camera may be obtained, and a progress bar a4 is shown around the interface thumbnail of "balcony of living room". The starting position of the progress bar may not be limited, for example, the starting position may be the middle position of the left edge of the interface thumbnail in fig. 11, the progress bar may gradually fill the periphery of the interface thumbnail along with the change of time, after the camera rotates to the target position, the camera completes the whole rotation process, and at this time, the progress bar fills the periphery of the interface thumbnail. Therefore, the user can observe the change of the progress bars around the selected interface thumbnail, the rotation progress of the camera in the rotation process of the camera is known, and the user experience is improved.

In other embodiments, when the real-time rotation progress is displayed by using the interface thumbnail, in addition to displaying the progress bars around the interface thumbnail corresponding to the target position, the progress bars may also be displayed in the interface thumbnail corresponding to the target position, and the progress bars are used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

For example, referring to fig. 8, fig. 13 and fig. 14, after the electronic device detects a selection operation on the interface thumbnail of "balcony of living room", a rotation instruction for controlling the camera to rotate to the shooting position of "balcony of living room" may be sent, and a real-time rotation progress of the camera may be obtained, and a progress bar may be displayed in the interface thumbnail of "balcony of living room". Wherein, the starting position of progress bar can be for the leftmost side of interface thumbnail, and the progress bar fills from the left side edge towards the right side gradually along with the change of time, after the camera rotated to the target location, then the whole rotation process has been accomplished to the camera, and at this moment, the progress bar was filled up whole interface thumbnail. Therefore, the user can observe the change of the progress bar in the selected interface thumbnail, know the rotation progress of the camera in the rotation process of the camera and improve the user experience.

In some embodiments, the electronic device may generate text prompt information based on the real-time rotation progress besides displaying the progress bar corresponding to the real-time rotation progress in the control interface, where the text prompt information is used for prompting the real-time rotation progress of the camera of the user; the generated text prompt message is then presented in the control interface. The specific content of the text prompt information is not limited, and the text prompt information is used for representing the completion condition of the rotation process, so that a user can know the rotation process through the progress bar and can also directly know whether the rotation process is completed according to the text prompt information.

For example, referring to fig. 11 again, when the camera is not rotated to the target position, the progress bar does not fill the periphery of the interface thumbnail at this time, and a prompt message of "rotating" may be displayed in the interface thumbnail; referring to fig. 12 again, after the camera is rotated to the target position, the real-time rotation progress is 100%, the progress bar fills up the periphery of the interface thumbnail at this time, and a prompt message of "reached" may be displayed in the interface thumbnail.

In some embodiments, the camera may send abnormal information to the server when abnormal rotation occurs, for example, the camera is stuck during rotation, the server may generate abnormal indication information according to the abnormal information, the abnormal indication information may carry an abnormal type of the abnormal rotation, and the like, and after receiving the abnormal indication information sent by the server, the electronic device may generate corresponding prompt information according to the abnormal indication information to prompt the abnormal rotation, the abnormal type of the abnormal rotation, and the like of the camera.

In this embodiment, if the real-time rotation progress does not reach 100%, the electronic device may stop updating the progress in the progress bar when receiving the abnormal indication information, so that the user knows that the camera does not rotate to the target position.

In some embodiments, since the above real-time rotation schedule may be calculated by the electronic device according to the rotation speed of the camera, there may be a case where the actual rotation schedule of the camera is not consistent with the rotation schedule calculated by the electronic device, or a case where the camera is not rotated to the target position when actually rotated. For the problem, after the real-time rotation progress reaches 100%, the electronic device can match the image characteristics of the image shot by the current camera with the historical monitoring image of the target position, and when the matching degree of the image shot by the current camera and the historical monitoring image is greater than or equal to the preset matching degree, the camera is determined to have rotated to the target position; when the matching degree of the image shot by the current camera and the historical monitoring image of the target position is smaller than the preset matching degree, the camera is determined not to rotate to the target position, and prompt information can be output and used for indicating that the camera is abnormal in rotation and does not rotate to the target position.

In this embodiment, since the camera is used for shooting an indoor image, there may be a case where a person in the room occupies a large range in the visual field of the camera, and the matching degree between the currently shot image and the historical monitoring image of the target position is less than the preset matching degree. Therefore, before matching the image characteristics of the image shot by the current camera with the historical monitoring image of the target position, the electronic equipment can also determine the portrait area in the image shot by the current camera, calculate the proportion of the portrait area occupying the shot image, and if the proportion is not greater than the specified proportion, match the image characteristics of the image shot by the current camera with the historical monitoring image of the target position and execute the subsequent steps; if the ratio is larger than the specified ratio, the electronic equipment can obtain the image shot by the camera again after the preset time interval, repeatedly execute the portrait area in the image shot by the current camera again, calculate the ratio of the portrait area occupying the shot image, and if the ratio is not larger than the specified ratio, match the image shot by the current camera with the historical monitoring image of the target position, and execute the subsequent steps. The preset time length can be 3 seconds, 5 seconds and the like, and is not limited herein; the specified ratio may be 40%, 50%, etc., and the specific numerical value may not be limited.

Further, if the electronic device detects that the proportion of the portrait area occupying the shot image is greater than the specified proportion for N consecutive times, it may be confirmed that the camera has rotated to the target position, and the process is ended, where N is a positive integer greater than a specified value, and the specified value may be 4, 6, and so on.

The camera control method provided by the embodiment of the application can display the monitoring image in the control interface by displaying the control interface of the camera, the control interface comprises the interface thumbnail corresponding to the historical viewing position, the selection operation of the interface thumbnail corresponding to the target position is responded, the rotation instruction is sent to the camera and is used for controlling the camera to rotate to the target position, the real-time rotation progress of the camera is obtained and is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position, then the real-time rotation progress is displayed around the interface thumbnail in a progress bar mode, so that a user can know the real-time rotation progress of the camera through the displayed progress bar while viewing the monitoring image area, and the progress bar is displayed in other areas except the monitoring image area in the control interface, the display of the monitoring image area can not be influenced, and the user experience is improved. In addition, the interface thumbnail corresponding to the historical viewing position is displayed, so that the user can select the historical viewing position, the camera can be controlled to move to the corresponding historical viewing position, and the user can conveniently control the shooting position of the camera.

Referring to fig. 15, a block diagram of a control device 400 of a camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. The control device 400 of the camera employs the above-mentioned electronic device, and the control device 400 of the camera includes: an interface display module 410, a rotation control module 420, a progress acquisition module 430, and a progress display module 440. The interface display module 410 is configured to display a control interface of the camera; the rotation control module 420 is configured to send a rotation instruction to the camera in response to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, where the rotation instruction is used to control the camera to rotate to a target position; the progress acquiring module 430 is configured to acquire a real-time rotation progress of the camera; the progress display module 440 is configured to display the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

In some embodiments, the control interface includes a first designated area for displaying a monitoring image acquired by the camera in real time. The progress presentation module 440 may be specifically configured to: and displaying the real-time rotation progress in a second designated area in the control interface in a progress bar mode, wherein the second designated area is located in an area, except for the first designated area, in the control interface.

In one embodiment, the second designated area includes an interface thumbnail of the monitoring image corresponding to the target location. The progress presentation module 440 may be specifically configured to: and displaying progress bars around the interface thumbnail, wherein the progress bars are used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

In one embodiment, the second designated area includes an interface thumbnail of the monitoring image corresponding to the target location. The progress presentation module 440 may be specifically configured to: and displaying a progress bar in the interface thumbnail, wherein the progress bar is used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

In some embodiments, the progress acquisition module 430 may include: a position acquisition unit and a progress determination unit. The position acquisition unit is used for acquiring the position of the camera in response to the control operation as an initial position; the progress determining unit is used for determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the initial position, the target position and the rotation speed of the camera.

In this embodiment, the progress acquiring unit may be specifically configured to: determining a rotation angle of the camera to be rotated based on the initial position and the target position; determining the total time length of the camera to be rotated based on the rotation angle and the rotation speed; and determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the ratio of the rotated time length of the camera at the current moment to the total time length.

In this embodiment, the position acquiring unit may be specifically configured to: sending a camera position acquisition request to a server for managing the intelligent household equipment; and receiving the position of the camera returned by the server.

In some embodiments, the control interface includes interface thumbnails for a plurality of monitor images corresponding to a plurality of historical viewing locations. The rotation control module 420 may be specifically configured to: and responding to selection operation of an interface thumbnail corresponding to a target position, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the target position is any one of the plurality of historical viewing positions.

In some embodiments, the control device 400 of the camera may further include: the device comprises an information generation module and an information prompt module. The information generating module is used for generating text prompt information based on the real-time rotation progress, and the text prompt information is used for prompting the real-time rotation progress of the camera of a user; and the information prompt module is used for displaying the text prompt information in the control interface.

In some embodiments, the rotation control module 420 may be specifically configured to: and responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to a server for managing the intelligent household equipment, wherein the server is used for sending the rotation instruction to the camera.

It can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described apparatuses and modules may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, the coupling between the modules may be electrical, mechanical or other type of coupling.

In addition, functional modules in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing module, or each of the modules may exist alone physically, or two or more modules are integrated into one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode.

To sum up, the scheme that this application provided, through the control interface who demonstrates the camera, the response is used for controlling camera pivoted control operation, send the rotation instruction to the camera, this rotation instruction is used for controlling this camera and rotates to the target location, and acquire the real-time rotation progress of camera, this real-time rotation progress is used for the representation camera to rotate to the progress of target location, then show in control interface with real-time rotation progress, thereby can realize when control camera rotates, demonstrate the progress that the camera rotated the in-process, make the user know the state when the camera rotated, promote user experience.

Referring to fig. 16, a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. A block diagram of an electronic device provided in an embodiment of the present application is shown. The electronic device 100 may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, a smart watch, a notebook computer, or other electronic devices capable of running an application program. The electronic device 100 in the present application may include one or more of the following components: a processor 110, a memory 120, a display 130, and one or more applications, wherein the one or more applications may be stored in the memory 120 and configured to be executed by the one or more processors 110, the one or more programs configured to perform the methods as described in the aforementioned method embodiments.

Processor 110 may include one or more processing cores. The processor 110 connects various parts within the overall electronic device 100 using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the electronic device 100 and processes data by executing or executing instructions, programs, code sets, or instruction sets stored in the memory 120 and calling data stored in the memory 120. Alternatively, the processor 110 may be implemented in hardware using at least one of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and Programmable Logic Array (PLA). The processor 110 may integrate one or more of a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a modem, and the like. Wherein, the CPU mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, an application program and the like; the GPU is used for rendering and drawing display content; the modem is used to handle wireless communications. It is understood that the modem may not be integrated into the processor 110, but may be implemented by a communication chip.

The Memory 120 may include a Random Access Memory (RAM) or a Read-Only Memory (Read-Only Memory). The memory 120 may be used to store instructions, programs, code sets, or instruction sets. The memory 120 may include a stored program area and a stored data area, wherein the stored program area may store instructions for implementing an operating system, instructions for implementing at least one function (such as a touch function, a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), instructions for implementing various method embodiments described below, and the like. The data storage area may also store data created by the electronic device 100 during use (e.g., phone book, audio-video data, chat log data), and the like.

The Display 130 is used for displaying information input by a user, information provided to the user, and various graphical user interfaces of the electronic device 100, which may be formed by graphics, text, icons, numbers, videos, and any combination thereof, and in one example, the Display 130 may be a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) or an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), which is not limited herein.

Referring to fig. 17, a block diagram of a computer-readable storage medium according to an embodiment of the present application is shown. The computer-readable medium 800 has stored therein a program code that can be called by a processor to execute the method described in the above-described method embodiments.

The computer-readable storage medium 800 may be an electronic memory such as a flash memory, an EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read only memory), an EPROM, a hard disk, or a ROM. Alternatively, the computer-readable storage medium 800 includes a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium. The computer readable storage medium 800 has storage space for program code 810 to perform any of the method steps of the method described above. The program code can be read from or written to one or more computer program products. The program code 810 may be compressed, for example, in a suitable form.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present application, and not to limit the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not necessarily depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A control method of a camera is applied to electronic equipment, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

displaying a control interface of the camera;

responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position;

acquiring a real-time rotation progress of the camera, wherein the real-time rotation progress is used for representing the progress of the camera rotating to the target position;

and displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control interface includes a first designated area, the first designated area is used for displaying a monitoring image acquired by the camera in real time, and the displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface includes:

and displaying the real-time rotation progress in a second designated area in the control interface in a progress bar mode, wherein the second designated area is located in an area, except for the first designated area, in the control interface.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second designated area includes an interface thumbnail of the monitoring image corresponding to the target position, and the second designated area in the control interface shows the real-time rotation progress in the form of a progress bar, including:

and displaying progress bars around the interface thumbnail, wherein the progress bars are used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second designated area includes an interface thumbnail of the monitoring image corresponding to the target position, and the designated area in the control interface shows the real-time rotation progress in the form of a progress bar, including:

and displaying a progress bar in the interface thumbnail, wherein the progress bar is used for representing the real-time rotation progress.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the real-time rotation progress of the camera comprises:

acquiring the position of the camera in response to the control operation as an initial position;

and determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the initial position, the target position and the rotation speed of the camera.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining a real-time rotational progress of the camera based on the initial position, the target position, and a rotational speed of the camera comprises:

determining a rotation angle of the camera to be rotated based on the initial position and the target position;

determining the total time length of the camera to be rotated based on the rotation angle and the rotation speed;

and determining the real-time rotation progress of the camera based on the ratio of the rotated time length of the camera at the current moment to the total time length.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein said obtaining the position of the camera in response to the control operation comprises:

sending a camera position acquisition request to a server for managing the intelligent household equipment;

and receiving the position of the camera returned by the server.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the control interface comprises interface thumbnails of a plurality of monitoring images corresponding to a plurality of historical viewing positions, and wherein sending a rotation instruction to the camera in response to a control operation for controlling rotation of the camera comprises:

and responding to selection operation of an interface thumbnail corresponding to a target position, and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, wherein the target position is any one of the plurality of historical viewing positions.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1-8, further comprising:

generating text prompt information based on the real-time rotation progress, wherein the text prompt information is used for prompting the real-time rotation progress of the camera of a user;

and displaying the text prompt information in the control interface.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein said transmitting a rotation instruction to the camera in response to a control operation for controlling rotation of the camera comprises:

and responding to a control operation for controlling the camera to rotate, and sending a rotation instruction to a server for managing the intelligent household equipment, wherein the server is used for sending the rotation instruction to the camera.

11. A control device of a camera is applied to electronic equipment, and is characterized by comprising: an interface display module, a rotation control module, a progress acquisition module and a progress display module, wherein,

the interface display module is used for displaying a control interface of the camera;

the rotation control module is used for responding to control operation for controlling the camera to rotate and sending a rotation instruction to the camera, and the rotation instruction is used for controlling the camera to rotate to a target position;

the progress acquisition module is used for acquiring the real-time rotation progress of the camera;

and the progress display module is used for displaying the real-time rotation progress in the control interface.

12. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory;

one or more applications, wherein the one or more applications are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs configured to perform the method of any of claims 1-10.

13. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program code that can be invoked by a processor to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 10.