JP2005192015A - Photography system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photography system with which a photographer himself/herself is necessarily photographed. <P>SOLUTION: An LED 110 is arranged in a remote controller 11. The photography system is constituted so that a digital camera 12 accepts a photographing instruction from the remote controller 11 only when the digital camera 12 catches the LED 110 in a predetermined field angle when the photographing instruction is given to the digital camera 12 with the remote controller 11. For the digital camera, the LED 110 serves as a mark for photographing the photographer himself/herself, and an LED 110a displayed on a display screen becomes a sign for confirmation for the photographer himself/herself. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a photographing system including a remote controller that gives a photographing instruction from a remote location and a photographing device that is installed at a predetermined position and receives a photographing instruction from the remote controller and generates image data of a subject.

  In a theme park or the like, as part of the service, a shooting service is performed in which a photographer installed in various places in the theme park photographs a visitor and provides the photographer with the photograph taken.

  When considering such a shooting service, by installing shooting devices at various locations in the theme park, and handing over remote controllers that can give shooting instructions to these shooting devices. A photography service that allows each visitor to take pictures with a remote controller at a favorite place can be considered. As a photographing service for realizing such a service, image data representing an image photographed by a photographing device installed in a theme park is transmitted by wireless transmission to a remote controller that gives a photographing instruction to the photographing device. What is recorded on the recording means with which the remote controller is provided (for example, refer patent document 1) is proposed. Also, the rental camera equipped with a wireless communicator acts as a remote controller to cause the imaging device installed in the theme park to shoot in synchronism with the release of the rental camera and to generate image data generated by the imaging device. An imaging system for recording on the recording medium of the rental camera has also been proposed.

  Also, a photographing device is arranged on the telephone box, and the photographing device and the telephone in the telephone box are electrically connected, and photographing is performed on the photographing device on the telephone box by a photographing instruction from another telephone. An imaging system to be performed is also considered (see Patent Document 2).

However, in an imaging system in which an imaging device is installed in a closed site such as a theme park, and an imaging instruction is given to the imaging device by a remote controller, the angle of view of the imaging device installed at a predetermined position is Since the person who gave the shooting instruction with the remote controller was supposed to be caught within the angle of view of the shooting device, actually the subject unrelated to the person was caught and shot. There is a concern.
JP 2002-152720 A JP-A-7-245750

  In view of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a photographing system in which a photographer himself is surely photographed.

The photographing system of the present invention that achieves the above object includes a remote controller that gives a photographing instruction from a remote location, and a photographing device that is installed at a predetermined position and generates image data of a subject in response to the photographing instruction from the remote controller. A shooting system,
The remote controller includes a light emitting element that allows the photographing apparatus to visually recognize,
The photographing apparatus accepts a photographing instruction from the remote controller only when the light emitting element is captured in each predetermined image.

  According to the photographing system of the present invention, the photographing instruction from the remote controller is accepted only when the photographing device captures the light emitting element within a predetermined angle of view. Then, unless the remote controller is set so that the position of the light emitting element is within a predetermined angle of view, shooting by the shooting instruction with the remote controller is not performed. In other words, the light emitting element serves to make the photographing apparatus visually recognize the position of the operator who holds the remote controller, and the photographing person who has the remote controller within the predetermined angle of view of the photographing apparatus is always captured.

Here, the imaging device wirelessly transmits image data representing an image captured within an angle of view toward the remote controller,
The remote controller preferably includes a display screen for displaying an image, receives image data wirelessly transmitted from the photographing apparatus, and displays an image based on the image data on the display screen.

  In this way, when an image based on image data representing an image captured within the angle of view is displayed on the display screen of the remote controller, it can be confirmed whether or not the composition of the remote controller operator is intended. .

In addition to the remote controller and the imaging device, the imaging system further includes an image filing device that receives and files image data from the imaging device.
The remote controller blinks the light emitting element provided in the remote controller according to the ID of the remote controller,
The photographing apparatus recognizes the ID of the remote controller based on blinking of the light emitting element, and transmits the ID to the image filing apparatus together with image data obtained by photographing according to a photographing instruction from the remote controller. And
It is preferable that the image filing device performs filing by associating the image data transmitted from the photographing device with an ID.

  Thus, when the light emitting element blinks, the ID of the remote controller is recognized by the imaging device, and when the ID and the image data generated by the imaging device are transmitted to the image filing device, the image filing device receives the ID. The image data is associated and image data is filed for each ID. As a result, a captured image can be obtained for each ID of the remote controller.

In addition, this photographing system is provided with a plurality of photographing devices,
It is preferable that the remote controller includes a selection unit that selects a photographing apparatus that instructs photographing.

  Then, one of the images captured by each of the plurality of photographing devices within the angle of view is selected and photographing is performed.

Further, each of the plurality of imaging devices wirelessly transmits image data representing an image captured within each angle of view toward the remote controller,
The remote controller includes a display screen for displaying an image, receives image data wirelessly transmitted from the imaging device selected by the selection unit, and displays an image based on the image data on the display screen It is preferable that

  As described above, when one of the plurality of photographing devices is selected by the selection unit, image data representing an image captured by the selected photographing device within the angle of view is wirelessly transmitted to the remote controller. An image based on the wirelessly transmitted image data is displayed on the display screen of the remote controller, and when another imaging device is selected by the selection unit, an image captured by the other imaging device within the angle of view is displayed. The represented image data is wirelessly transmitted to the remote controller, and an image based on the wirelessly transmitted image data is displayed on the display screen of the remote controller. For this reason, the operator of the remote controller and the roller can select a favorite composition, and can obtain a photographed image of the favorite composition. Up to now, only shooting with a fixed shooting angle of view has been performed, but as described above, it is possible to provide shot images with various shooting angles of view.

   As described above, an imaging system in which the photographer himself is surely photographed is realized.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an imaging system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is an enlarged view of the remote controller 11 shown by a dotted line at the lower right of FIG.

  A photographing system 1 shown in FIG. 1 includes a remote controller 11 (hereinafter referred to as a remote controller) that gives a photographing instruction from a remote location, and a photographing device that is installed at a predetermined position and generates image data of a subject in response to the photographing instruction from the remote controller The digital camera 12 includes a light emitting element 110 that the remote controller 11 causes the digital camera 12 to visually recognize.

  The digital camera 12 wirelessly transmits image data representing an image captured within an angle of view to a remote controller 11, and the remote controller 11 includes a display screen 111 that displays an image. Image data transmitted wirelessly is received and an image based on the image data is displayed on the display screen 111. In the diagram surrounded by a dotted line in FIG. 1, image data representing an image when the digital camera 12 captures its light emitting element, here the LED 110, within a predetermined angle of view is wirelessly transmitted to the remote controller 11, and the image data An example in which an image based on the above is displayed on the display screen 111 of the remote controller 11 is shown. Here, in order to distinguish between the LED 110 and the LED displayed on the display screen 111, the LED displayed on the display screen is denoted by reference numeral 110a.

  In this digital camera 12, when the LED 111a is displayed on the display screen 111 as shown in the figure surrounded by the dotted line in FIG. The digital camera 12 receives a shooting instruction and performs shooting. The Y button is also a component of the selection unit described later. In the diagram surrounded by a dotted line in FIG. 1, a cross key 113 and an N button 114 that function as components of the selection unit are also shown.

  In the imaging system 1 of the present embodiment, the remote controller 11 is not transmitted the ID of the remote controller 11 using wireless communication, but utilizes the fact that the imaging apparatus 12 visually recognizes the LED 110 provided in the remote controller 11. Thus, the ID is transmitted to the photographing device 12 by blinking the LED 110 in accordance with the ID of the remote controller 11.

  In this way, the digital camera 12 allows the photographer who has the remote controller 11 including the LED 110 to be captured within the angle of view of the digital camera 12, and the LED 110 is visually recognized by the digital camera 12 and the digital camera 12 captures the image. The ID of the remote controller 11 is recognized by the digital camera 12 based on the blinking of the LED 110 when the instruction is accepted. Therefore, the photographer who always has the remote controller 11 is photographed by the digital camera 12, and the ID of the remote controller 11 is recognized by the digital camera 12 at the time of photographing.

  Further, in the photographing system of the present embodiment, the ID of the remote controller 11 is transmitted to the photographed image server 13 together with the image data obtained by photographing according to the photographing instruction from the remote controller 11, and the transmitted image data and The system configuration is such that the image data is filed by the captured image server 13 in association with the ID. The photographed image server 13 corresponds to the image filing device referred to in the present invention.

  Here, the connection relationship between the digital camera 12 and the captured image server 13, the internal configuration of the digital camera 12, and the internal configuration of the remote controller 11 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between the digital camera 12 and the image server 13 and an internal configuration of the digital camera 12, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of the remote controller 11.

  The overall operation of the digital camera 12 shown in FIG. 2 is comprehensively controlled by the main CPU 1200, and the overall operation of the digital camera 12 is controlled according to the procedure of the program stored in the EEPROM 1200a. Focusing, aperture selection, and flash emission are controlled by the photometry / ranging CPU 1201 based on an instruction from the main CPU 1200. In other words, the photometry / ranging CPU 1201 moves the focus lens 1202a in the photographing optical system 1202 to perform focusing, select a small aperture 1202b or an open aperture, or perform flash emission of the flash light emitting device 1203. Control is performed. The flash light emitting device 1203 includes a charge / light emission control unit 1203a and a light emitting tube 1203b, and the timing and light emission time of the flash light emission in the light emitting tube 1203b are finely controlled by the charge / light emission control unit 1203a.

  In this way, the focus and brightness are adjusted, and the subject is imaged on a solid-state imaging device (hereinafter referred to as a CCD because a CCD solid-state imaging device is used) 1205 with appropriate exposure. In order to display image data representing a subject imaged on the CCD 1205 as a through image on the display screen 111 on the remote control side, the photometry / ranging CPU 1201 controls a clock generator (hereinafter referred to as CG) 1204 to clock the CCD 1205. The supplied image data generated by the CCD 1205 is output to the subsequent white balance γ processing unit 1206 at predetermined intervals. When the processing in the white balance γ processing unit 1206 is completed, a clock is supplied from the clock generator 1204 to the A / D conversion unit 1207 at a predetermined interval so as to be supplied to the subsequent A / D conversion unit 1207. ing. When analog image data is converted into digital image data by the A / D conversion unit 1207, the digital image data is temporarily stored in the buffer memory 1208, and the output timing to the bus 1209 is adjusted by the buffer memory 1208. Image data is transferred to the YC processing unit 1210 via the bus 1209. The YC processing unit 1210 converts image data consisting of RGB signals into image data consisting of YC signals so as to match the display screen of a general display device, and the image data consisting of YC signals is transferred to the wireless signal processing unit 1211. The The wireless processing unit 1211 modulates the carrier wave according to the image data, and the modulated carrier wave is radiated from the antenna 1212 to the space as a radio wave.

  The radio waves radiated to the space are received by the remote controller 11 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the operation of the remote controller 11 is controlled by the main CPU 1100 on the remote controller 11 side. When radio waves radiated in this space are received by the antenna 1101 of the remote controller 11, the CPU 1100 first performs wireless signal processing. The unit 1102 demodulates the modulated wave received by the antenna 1101.

  The YC image data demodulated by the wireless processing unit 1102 is transferred to the YC → RGB conversion unit 1104 via the bus 1103, and the YC → RGB conversion unit 1104 converts the YC image data into RGB signals. . The converted RGB signal is supplied to the driver 1105 at the next stage, and the image display LCD 111 is driven by the driver 1105 to display an image based on the image data composed of the RGB signals on the display screen 111 a of the image display LCD 111.

  By doing so, the subject captured by the digital camera 12 is displayed on the display screen 111a of the remote controller 11 as shown in the figure surrounded by the dotted line in FIG.

  As described above, the remote controller 11 includes the light emitting element 110 that the digital camera 12 visually recognizes, and the digital camera 12 accepts a shooting instruction from the remote controller 11 only when the LED 110 is captured within a predetermined angle of view. The photographer must hold the remote controller 11 so that the digital camera 12 can visually recognize the light emitting element 110 included in the remote controller 11. In the present invention, the digital camera 12 can accept a shooting instruction no matter where the LED 110 is captured within the angle of view of the digital camera 12, which is an example of a shooting device. As shown, when the remote controller 11 is set so that the position of the LED 110 is near the center, the digital camera 12 captures a person at the center within a predetermined angle of view and the digital camera 12 performs shooting in the best framing.

  Further, in the remote control 11 provided in the shooting system of the present embodiment using the fact that the shooting instruction is accepted by the digital camera 12 only when the LED 110 is captured within a predetermined angle of view, the LED 110 is set to the ID of the remote control 11. The digital camera 12 recognizes the remote controller ID based on the blinking.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of blinking of the LED 110.

  The horizontal axis of the graph shown in FIG. 4 is time, and the vertical axis is the amplitude level corresponding to each of the binary signals 0 and 1.

  FIG. 4 shows an example in which the LED 110 emits light when the binary signal 0, 1 is 1, and when the LED 110 is 0, the LED 110 is turned off and the LED 110 is turned on / off based on the ID of the remote controller 11. Yes. Here, the remote controller ID is 01001010.

  The operation of extracting the ID based on this blinking will be described with reference back to FIG.

  In the digital camera 12, the signal converted into the YC signal by the YC processing unit 1210 is transferred to the wireless signal processing unit 1211 via the bus 1209 and also supplied to the ID extraction unit 1220. The ID extraction unit 1220 detects the amplitude of the luminance signal of the portion where the LED 110 is captured from the pixel data for one frame, and extracts the ID. As described above, assuming that the remote controller 11 is set so that the light emitting element is captured near the center and the LED 12 is captured near the center in the angle of view, the amplitude difference of the luminance signal near the center is mainly. The ID is detected and detected at predetermined intervals. Of course, in this digital camera, it is possible to accept a shooting instruction regardless of the position within the angle of view of the LED 12, so not only near the center but also within the entire range of the angle of view. Thus, only the change in the amplitude of the luminance signal can be extracted.

  In the blinking cycle shown in FIG. 4, an 8-bit ID of 01001010 is extracted by the ID extraction unit as time passes. Only when the digital camera 12 captures the LED 110 within a predetermined angle of view, the photographing instruction is accepted. Therefore, the ID is extracted while the LED 110 is captured within the angle of view of the image. Photographing is performed at the same time or after that and a photographing instruction is accepted. Since the main CPU 1200 provided in the digital camera is in a state of waiting for a shooting instruction at the moment when the LED 110 is captured within a predetermined angle of view, the Y button 112 on the remote control 11 side is operated and the shooting instruction is transmitted by wireless communication. When the signal is transmitted to the digital camera 12, a signal indicating a shooting start instruction is supplied to the photometry / ranging CPU 1201 at the timing of the shooting instruction, and a clock generator (hereinafter referred to as a clock generator) is sent to the photometry / ranging CPU 1201 according to the timing of the shooting start. 1204) (referred to as CG). This photometry / ranging CPU 1201 causes the CG 1204 to supply an exposure start signal to the CCD 1205, causes each light receiving element of the CCD 1205 to start accumulating charges, and after a predetermined time, this time the CG 1204 is supplied with a sweep signal, and the subsequent stage. The white balance γ processing unit 1206 outputs image data. When the white balance γ processing unit 1206 performs white balance γ processing, the image data is transferred to the YC processing unit 1210 via the buffer memory 1208 to convert the image data composed of RGB signals into YC signals, and further the compression / decompression unit 1230. The compression / decompression unit 1230 generates an image file. At this time, the ID extracted by the ID extraction unit 1220 is recorded together with the image data as the header of the image file, and the image file is transferred to the image server 13 via the I / F 1231.

  The image server 13 receives the image file, extracts the ID number from the header, associates the ID with the image data, performs filing, and prints a captured image based on the image data filed for each ID. (Not shown). The photographed images printed on the printing apparatus are sorted by ID, and the photographed images are handed to the visitors who photographed with the remote controller 11 having the ID.

  With such a configuration, a photographer having the remote controller 11 can be surely photographed, and an irrelevant thing can be photographed without permission. Also, the photographed images are accurately sorted, and the photographed images are surely handed to the person who photographed with the remote control.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the photographing system includes a plurality of digital cameras 12.

  The figure shown in the lower left of FIG. 5 (the portion surrounded by a dotted line) shows an example in which the subject 111c captured within the angle of view of any digital camera is displayed on the display screen of the remote control. The figure shown in the lower right of FIG. 5 (portion surrounded by a dotted line) shows an example in which the selection screen 111b is displayed on the display screen.

  FIG. 5 shows an example in which there are three digital cameras 12a, 12b, and 12c around a person having a remote controller 11 among the digital cameras 12 installed at various locations in the theme park. In many cases, a person with the remote control 11 often gives a shooting instruction to one digital camera, and shooting with a fixed angle of view was often performed. In view of this, in this embodiment, at least two cameras are installed at a predetermined location so that shooting at various angles of view can be performed.

  In addition, when there are at least two cameras in this way, the digital camera 12 must be selected on the remote controller 11 side. Therefore, a selection unit can be provided in the remote controller 11 to select one of a plurality of digital cameras. I try to do it.

  In the example shown in FIG. 5, in order to be able to select any one of the three digital cameras 12a, 12b, and 12c that can take a picture of a person having the remote controller 11, the bottom right of FIG. A selection screen 111b is displayed on the display screen 111a.

  Here, when any digital camera is selected by the cross key 113, the digital camera is selected, the selection signal is wirelessly transmitted to the digital camera side, and the selection signal is transmitted from the wirelessly transmitted digital camera. Image data is transmitted wirelessly. For example, if the digital camera 12a is selected, the subject 111c captured by the digital camera 12a is displayed on the display screen 111a as shown in the lower left of FIG. If you do not like shooting at this shooting angle of view, operate the cross key 112 to return to the selection screen 111b again, select another digital camera 12b, 12c, and press the Y button 112 again. A subject image captured within a predetermined angle of view of the digital camera 12b or 12c is displayed on the display screen 111a.

  When this is repeated to determine the shooting angle of view that the user likes, the user can press the Y button 112 to perform shooting at the shooting angle of view he likes.

  In this way, it is possible to enjoy not only a fixed shooting angle of view but also various shooting angles of view as before.

It is a figure which shows the imaging | photography system which is one Embodiment of this invention. 2 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between a digital camera 12 and an image server 13 and an internal configuration of the digital camera 12. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of a remote controller 11. FIG. It is a figure explaining an example of blinking of LED110. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the photographing system includes a plurality of digital cameras 12.

Explanation of symbols

1 Shooting System 11 Remote Control 110 Light Emitting Element (LED)
110a Light emitting element (LED) displayed on display screen
111 Image display LCD
111a Display screen 112 Y button 113 Cross key 114 N button 12 Digital camera 12a 12b 12c Digital camera 1200 Main CPU
1201 Metering / ranging CPU
1202 Imaging optical system 1202a Focus lens 1202b Aperture 1203 Flash light emitting device 1203a Charging / light emission control unit 1203b Light emitting tube 1204 Clock generator (CG)
1205 CCD
1206 White Balance γ Processing Unit 1207 A / D Conversion Unit 1208 Buffer Memory 1209 Bus 1210 YC Processing Unit 1211 Wireless Signal Processing Unit 1212 Antenna 1220 ID Extraction Unit 1230 Compression / Expansion Unit 1231 I / F Unit 13 Captured Image Server

Claims (5)

In a shooting system comprising a remote controller that gives a shooting instruction from a remote location, and a shooting apparatus that is installed at a predetermined position and that generates a subject image data in response to the shooting instruction from the remote controller,
The remote controller includes a light emitting element that allows the photographing apparatus to visually recognize,
The photographing system is characterized in that the photographing apparatus accepts a photographing instruction from the remote controller only when the light emitting element is captured within a predetermined angle of view. The photographing device wirelessly transmits image data representing an image captured within an angle of view toward the remote controller,
The remote controller includes a display screen for displaying an image, receives image data wirelessly transmitted from the photographing apparatus, and displays an image based on the image data on the display screen. Item 1. The imaging system according to Item 1. In addition to the remote controller and the photographing device, the photographing system further includes an image filing device that receives image data from the photographing device and performs filing.
The remote controller blinks a light emitting element provided in the remote controller in accordance with the ID of the remote controller;
The photographing apparatus recognizes the ID of the remote controller based on the blinking of the light emitting element, and transmits the ID to the image filing apparatus together with image data obtained by photographing according to a photographing instruction from the remote controller. Is what
2. The photographing system according to claim 1, wherein the image filing device performs filing by associating image data transmitted from the photographing device with an ID. This photographing system is equipped with a plurality of photographing devices,
The imaging system according to claim 1, wherein the remote controller includes a selection unit that selects an imaging apparatus that instructs imaging. Each of the plurality of imaging devices wirelessly transmits image data representing an image captured within each angle of view toward the remote controller,
The remote controller includes a display screen for displaying an image, receives image data wirelessly transmitted from the imaging device selected by the selection unit, and displays an image based on the image data on the display screen The imaging system according to claim 4, wherein:

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