EP1030731A1 - Projecteur d'images animees, procede de production, de modification et de traitement de sequences d'images pour un tel projecteur, et sequence d'images animees produite selon ce procede - Google Patents

Projecteur d'images animees, procede de production, de modification et de traitement de sequences d'images pour un tel projecteur, et sequence d'images animees produite selon ce procede

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EP1030731A1
EP1030731A1 EP97951208A EP97951208A EP1030731A1 EP 1030731 A1 EP1030731 A1 EP 1030731A1 EP 97951208 A EP97951208 A EP 97951208A EP 97951208 A EP97951208 A EP 97951208A EP 1030731 A1 EP1030731 A1 EP 1030731A1
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sequence
motion picture
projection area
computer unit
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Wolfgang Richter
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VLG Virtual Laser Systems GmbH
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Priority claimed from PCT/EP1997/006376 external-priority patent/WO1999025438A1/fr
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  • Image projector method for creating, changing and editing image sequences for such a motion picture projector, and motion image sequence created according to this method.
  • the present invention relates to a moving picture projector, a method for creating, changing and editing moving picture sequences for this moving picture projector and moving picture sequences created according to the method.
  • Image sequence is understood here to mean both film material that was created in a conventional manner and then digitized, as well as images or image sequences that were recorded by means of a digital camera and fed into a computer, as well as images or image sequences that were directly in one Computer (with or without using a template). If several pictures belong together and form a "moving picture sequence", they are also referred to as such below.
  • a motion picture projector having a computer unit which is connected to a database in which the motion picture sequence data is stored, in order to control this motion picture sequence data by the computer unit through a playback program by means of an image projection device connected to the computer unit in to image a projection area, at least one transmitter which is set up to emit a directed electromagnetic beam into a predeterminable section of the projection area, the electromagnetic beam being stamped with an identifier characteristic of the transmitter, a detector device connected to the computer unit which is used to detect the Electromagnetic beam is set up if and if it strikes the predeterminable section of the projection area, the detector device detecting one for the respective one when an electromagnetic beam is detected n emits the characteristic signal to the computer unit, the computer unit, controlled by the playback program, selecting motion
  • the identifier imprinted on the electromagnetic beam of each transmitter can contain information about the respective viewer (age, gender, name etc.) the action can be continued depending on the person of the viewer.
  • score counters can be kept that appear during the plot or after the performance (together with a picture and the name of the respective viewer) the projection area.
  • the computer unit can be connected to a video camera in order to capture images which, as a function of characteristic signals from the detector device, are mapped as an image sequence controlled by the playback program in the projection area.
  • the playback program in the computer unit depicts a predeterminable image sequence in the projection area as a function of characteristic signals from the detector device.
  • selected images of the motion picture sequence data in the database are assigned branching paths to other images of the motion picture sequence data or to other image sequences which are selected when predetermined events are present.
  • the branching paths to other images or image sequences become dependent on the point in time and / or location of the impingement of at least one electromagnetic beam in the projection region, and / or the number of electromagnetic beams impinging on a specific location in the projection region, and / or the Identification of at least one detected electromagnetic rule, and / or previous branching paths selected.
  • locations or objects are preferably predetermined, in which at least one electromagnetic beam must occur in order to cause a branching to another image or another image sequence.
  • external actuators smell sources, smoke sources, flash light sources, water cannons, confetti cannons, etc.
  • smell sources smoke sources, flash light sources, water cannons, confetti cannons, etc.
  • the computer unit can be actuated by the computer unit depending on characteristic signals from the detector device.
  • the invention also relates to a method for creating, changing or editing image sequences, comprising the following steps: providing an image sequence in a representation which allows the image sequence to be fed into a computer, defining at least one location in at least one image of the image sequence as an event field, defining descriptors of the event field and storing the descriptors in a data record that can be linked to the respective image or the image sequence to which this image belongs, and storing the image sequence and the descriptor data record in a database.
  • Film material created or edited in this way is suitable for being displayed with a motion picture projector of the type described above. It is not only new (digitally) created film material that can be processed. Alternatives of the course of action created during the shooting of the company or the depiction of certain scenes that were not used in previous films in the "end product" can also be used. It is also possible to integrate the viewer interactive functionality into existing film material. In other words, this procedure can give old films, such as film classics, new appeal. The particularly easy handling also enables fast creation of films from existing film set pieces. It is also possible to provide for scenes or parts of scenes to be displayed multiple times at the viewer's request.
  • the event field is defined by the following steps: displaying the image on a computer screen and marking delimitation locations in the image.
  • the marking of boundary locations in the image can be done in a simple manner by determining the coordinates of corner points or edge lines of an area, or by determining objects in the image. If - similar to CAD programs - individual objects are defined as event fields, this object can deform, rotate, move etc. in the following images, without this having any influence on the principle according to the invention: If a viewer (s) has an electromagnetic Aiming the beam at this object and this is detected by the appropriately aligned and possibly tracked sensor, the further course of the action of the film can be made dependent on it. A refinement can be seen that it can play a role in the further course of the action, whether the viewer (s) directs an electromagnetic beam at this object at the beginning of the scene or only later.
  • the setting of descriptors of the event field can also be determined as a function of previously defined events, to which next picture or which next picture sequence is branched.
  • the event field descriptors are condition definitions in the form of "if-then (else)" clauses. For example, “When a male viewer points to a certain object in that image (such as a ball) in the first frame of the scene at hand, tromagnetic beam is directed and this is detected, then it branches to the scene (No. XXX) (in which a football player is shown who hits this ball in the opposing goal) ".
  • the invention relates to motion picture sequences stored in a database on a computer-readable data carrier, in which at least one position in at least one picture of a picture sequence is defined as an event field, and descriptors of the event field are defined, the descriptors being stored in a data record which is associated with the respective Picture or the picture sequence to which this
  • Image heard can be linked.
  • CD-ROMs or the like come as data carriers. into consideration, as they are able to hold the necessary data.
  • the transmitter is set up to emit a directed electromagnetic beam, preferably a visible light beam, the electromagnetic beam being provided with an identifier which is characteristic of the transmitter.
  • the light beam can be generated by an ultra-bright LED arrangement (with optics arranged in front of it) or by a semiconductor laser arrangement, the identifier (by frequency, amplitude, Phase modulation or the like.) Is modulated.
  • a conventional incandescent lamp as the main visible source of the beam and, in addition, to emit, for example, a bundled, modulated infrared light beam.
  • the concept according to the invention allows a large number of viewers to interactively influence the plot of the film at the same time.
  • the individual viewers can also co-determine the action with their respective broadcaster on several films running in parallel on different projection areas.
  • the viewer's freedom of movement is not limited, since the transmitter does not have to be connected to the control of the motion picture projector via a line.
  • the invention allows a particularly simple, also dynamic, determination of the predeterminable section of the projection area into which the viewers must direct their respective electromagnetic beam in order to influence the action of the film.
  • the computer unit can be connected to a video camera in order to capture images that are program-controlled inserted into an action sequence. This enables e.g. Before the start of the film screening, the capture of portrait pictures of the viewers who want to influence the plot of the respective film screening, as well as the fade-in or otherwise inclusion of the picture of individual viewers in the film plot.
  • a sequence of descriptors of predeterminable sections of the projection area are preferably stored in the memory device and can be correlated with the course of the game by the computer program. This means that any gameplay that is in the projection richly depicted, a sequence of locations are determined at which - parallel to the course of the game - there are predeterminable sections of the projection area.
  • the creation of the sequence of descriptors can be done, for example, in such a way that the game sequence is displayed step by step on the projection area and for individual scenes, corner or edge areas of the predeterminable subsections of the projection area are designated by emitting a beam, while the detector device - by controlled by the computer unit - scans the projection area until the beam is detected.
  • the moving, predeterminable section of the projection area (e.g. a specific symbol) can also be marked in the file, from which the data for the film action sequence can be called up.
  • the section occurs in the film plot, its coordinates and / or extent are also known or can be determined, so that the
  • This section in the projection area is known or can be determined. However, this requires a calibration of the course of the game projected into the projection area. This calibration can be carried out in such a way that a test image is projected into the projection area, a computer program knowing coordinates of certain conspicuous points in this test image. A light beam is directed at these points by means of a transmitter device, while the computer unit - controlled by the computer program - the detector device by means of the
  • Alignment unit pivoted in a controlled manner until the light beam directed at this point is detected.
  • a relationship to the respective point can be established from the orientation of the detector device, so that the coordinates in the projection area can also be calculated therefrom for every other object in the course of the film.
  • the detector device is controlled by the computer unit as a function of the descriptors so that the detector device is aligned with a predetermined section of the projection area and is also tracked in the case of moving image sequences (with a moving object which represents or contains the predetermined section) .
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of the motion picture projector according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows an arrangement of motion picture sequences and their linkage to a respective event field data record as well as the possible branching from one motion picture sequence to another motion picture sequence.
  • FIG. 1 shows, as the core of the motion picture projector according to the invention, a computer unit 10 which is connected to a database 12 in which motion picture sequence data 14 are stored.
  • This motion picture sequence data 14 can be controlled by the computer unit 10 through a playback program 16, by means of an image projection device 18 connected to the computer unit 10, e.g. in the form of a video cannon or the like. are projected into a projection area 20.
  • the respective viewer can direct an electromagnetic beam 24 into a predeterminable section 26 of the projection area 20.
  • the electromagnetic beam 24 is one for the transmitter 22 characteristic identifier (eg a consecutive number), for example, by amplitude modulation so that the viewer serving the respective transmitter 22 can be clearly identified.
  • a detector device 30 is connected to the computer unit 10 and is set up to detect an electromagnetic beam 24 striking the predeterminable section 26 of the projection area 20. When the detector device 30 detects the impingement of an electromagnetic beam 24, it emits a signal characteristic of the respective detected beam 24 to the computer unit 10.
  • the computer unit 10 controlled by the playback program 16, selects motion picture sequence data 14 from the database 12 for imaging in the projection area 20.
  • characteristic signals received by the detector device 30 from the transmitter (s) are taken into account by the playback program 16.
  • the computer unit 10 is also connected to a video camera 32 in order to capture images of all the viewers who have a station before the start of the film screening 22 (with the individual identifier) during the film screening in order to influence the plot of the film.
  • a video camera 32 in order to capture images of all the viewers who have a station before the start of the film screening 22 (with the individual identifier) during the film screening in order to influence the plot of the film.
  • signals from the detector device 30 which are characteristic of the respective transmitter 22 if the viewer (s) intervenes successfully, their portrait or a short image sequence as an image sequence controlled by the playback program 16 is then mapped at a suitable location in the projection area 20 .
  • one or more predeterminable image sequences can also be imaged in the projection area 20 if one or more viewers intervene successfully, controlled as a function of characteristic signals from the detector device 30.
  • selected images of the motion picture sequence data 14 in the database 12 are assigned to branch paths to other images of the motion picture sequence data 14 or to other image sequences which are selected in the presence of predetermined events. This is illustrated in detail in FIG. 2.
  • a data record D is carried in which there is at least one position, namely preferably the partial area 26 in the present image Image sequence is defined as event field E.
  • Descriptors E1, E2, E3,... Of sub-area 26, for example the coordinates of a corner point and the dimensions of sub-area 26, or boundary lines of sub-area 26, are defined for event field E and stored in data record D, which corresponds to the respective Image or the image sequence to which this image belongs is linked.
  • next picture (Bx, By, Bz) or which next picture sequence is branched to.
  • Field defines a window in a field 100 100 Picture 200 300
  • Show shows a film sequence in a Show Scene90 field Feldl
  • Hit processes the script file after a beam hits an event field Hit.dat.
  • Text Shows a text at a text 50 60 determined position in the projection $ first
  • Range e.g. the variable "first" can contain the name of the viewer from a database whose beam was the first to hit a certain field.
  • RWI sends a data word to an RWI 24 connector to control an external effects device
  • Flag Now the serial number of the currently running image sequence
  • Viewer contains the number of the transmitter whose beam has hit a predetermined area in the present film sequence.
  • the respective image sequence and the descriptor data set are stored together in a database.
  • the image sequence can either be 1.) a part or a scene of the (feature) film, in which the viewer is not able to interact (i.e. no data record is carried for this scene), or 2.) a part or a scene of the (Sch-) films, in which an interaction possibility of the viewer is provided (that is, a data record of the type described above is carried for this scene), or 3.) be a picture sequence that is entered due to a successful interaction of one or more viewers - is dazzled. Such an image sequence can in turn be equipped with or without the possibility of interaction.
  • the branching paths 40 to other images or image sequences can be a function of the time and / or location of the impact of at least one electromagnetic beam 24 in the predetermined section 26 of the projection area. ches 20, and / or the number of electromagnetic beams 24 impinging on a specific location in the projection area, and / or the identification of at least one detected electromagnetic beam 24, and / or previous branching paths.
  • locations or objects are thus predetermined, in which at least one electromagnetic beam must occur in order to branch to another image or another image sequence.
  • Commands can also be included in the event field which, depending on characteristic signals from the detector device, put external effects devices 50 into action by the computer unit.
  • the course of action can - in the simplest form - be a moving image sequence in which a certain object appears temporarily and is to be marked by the viewer using the electromagnetic beam 24 from their respective transmitter 22.
  • the computer unit 10 coordinates the alignment of the detector device 30 with the moving image sequence in such a way that the detector device 30 is always aligned with the object.
  • the object represents or comprises the predetermined section of the projection area.
  • the data format described so far is based on an essentially rectangular shape of the predetermined section of the projection area. If this section has a round shape (which primarily depends on the detection area of the detector device and any optical components connected upstream), a data format adapted to a circle can also be selected. Other shapes depending on the design of the detector furnishings are possible. Instead of the starting point in time and the duration at which the coordinate values apply, reference marks can also be stored in the data of the moving image sequence. The computer program then synchronizes the data from the
  • the existing (video) film material can be read into the computer on the screen frame by frame or also frame by frame for editing,
  • a sub-area e.g. with a mouse or a graphics tablet or the like
  • a sub-area e.g. with a mouse or a graphics tablet or the like
  • An external simulation device which is connected to the serial port (port) of the computer, for example, can be particularly useful for the latter function.
  • the simulation device consists of a microprocessor with keyboard, display, memory and serial connection. Information about fictitious transmitters is entered via the keyboard, for example, which picture of a certain sequence which transmitter should hit a certain area in the picture. The image sequence can then be started in the computer and the simulation device delivers the corresponding signal to the computer in real time instead of the detector device.

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L'invention concerne un projecteur d'images animées comportant une unité informatique (10) reliée à une banque de données (12) dans laquelle sont stockées des données de séquences d'images animées (14) pour représenter dans une zone de projection (20) ces données (14), commandées par l'unité informatique (10) par l'intermédiaire d'un programme de reproduction (16), au moyen d'une unité de projection d'images (18) reliée à l'unité informatique (10). Ce projecteur comprend également au moins un émetteur (22) conçu pour émettre un rayonnement électromagnétique orienté (22) dans une partie (26), pouvant être prédéterminée, de la zone de projection (20). Une marque caractéristique de l'émetteur concerné (22) est attribuée au rayonnement électromagnétique (22). Ce projecteur comprend en outre une unité de détection (30) reliée à l'unité informatique (10) et conçue pour détecter le rayonnement électromagnétique (22) lorsque celui frappe la partie, pouvant être prédéterminée, de la zone de projection. Lors de la détection d'un rayonnement électromagnétique (22), cette unité de détection (30) transmet à l'unité informatique (10) un signal caractéristique du rayonnement détecté (22). L'unité informatique (10), commandée par le programme de reproduction (16), sélectionne des données de séquences d'images animées (14) dans la banque de données (12) pour les représenter dans la zone de projection. Lors de la sélection des données de séquences d'images animées (14) à représenter, des signaux caractéristiques reçus par l'unité de détection (30) sont pris en considération par le programme de reproduction (16).
EP97951208A 1997-11-14 1997-11-14 Projecteur d'images animees, procede de production, de modification et de traitement de sequences d'images pour un tel projecteur, et sequence d'images animees produite selon ce procede Ceased EP1030731A1 (fr)

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