JPH06105214A - Camera with gyro sensor and video printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To acquire a picture with high picture quality by providing a gyro sensor sending the movement of a camera to the camera so as to apply layout edit to plural pictures having an equivalent information quantity to that of information of a negative film of a usual size and synthesizing the pictures without a gap. CONSTITUTION:At first a 1st image pickup scene being a reference scene is picked up and a camera 100 is moved in a horizontal or vertical direction and further obliquely to direct the camera 100 toward a 2nd image pickup scene in continuity with the 1st image pickup scene. In this case, a gyro sensor 104 detects a moving direction and indication commanding correct setting of a pickup position of the camera 100 is made in a finder 101 based on its sensing signal. A photographer sets the camera 100 correctly to pick up the scene according to the command and then plural negative films having an information quantity equivalent to the information quantity of a negative film of a usual size is obtained. The plural picture obtained in such a manner are subjected to layout edit by the video printer without a gap and a desired panorama picture is obtained.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an intelligent camera and a video printer for editing an image captured by the camera into a desired image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional panoramic photograph is an image that is long in the vertical or horizontal direction, and so it is apt to be considered that it is generally composed of two negative frames taken, but in reality, it is shown in FIG. As described above, it is the actual situation that the top and bottom of one frame shot with the wide-angle lens is trimmed and printed at a higher magnification than in normal shooting. Therefore, the image quality is slightly deteriorated as compared with the normal printing. However, as shown in FIG. 2, since the negative can be printed without using a special device, it is not necessary to charge a fee far from the printing fee in the normal state, and the panoramic photograph is relatively inexpensive. It is also true that the recipients are happy with the wide range of images they have ever seen, with the photos in their hands.

However, when it is desired to further enlarge the print medium from the normal size, the reduction in the amount of information for the subject in FIG. 2 greatly affects the print quality. In particular,
In the case of a video printer that prints out an image taken by a still video camera, this deterioration is noticeable even with a normal size.

Since the format shown in FIG. 2 is premised when the user himself outputs the panoramic print, as shown in FIG. 3, the layout-enabled video printer apparatus which connects adjacent images without any gap has been heretofore available. There wasn't.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to provide a camera having an information amount equivalent to the negative size information of a normal size and for taking an image which can be easily combined. It is an object of the present invention to provide a video printer device that layout-edits a plurality of images captured by the camera and combines them without any gap to output a high-quality image.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the camera of the present invention, when the camera is moved from a first shooting scene to a second shooting scene adjacent to the first shooting scene, moves the camera. The configuration includes a gyro sensor for detecting, and means for instructing the correct setting of the photographing position of the camera based on the detection signal of the gyro sensor.

Further, the video printer device of the present invention is configured to have a means for performing layout editing of a plurality of images photographed by the camera without gaps.

[0008]

According to the above construction, first, the first photographing scene serving as a reference is photographed, and then the camera is moved in the horizontal direction, the vertical direction, or the diagonal direction to continue the first photographing scene. The camera is aimed at the second shooting scene. At that time, the gyro sensor detects the moving direction, and based on the detection signal, a display for instructing the correct setting of the shooting position of the camera is displayed in the viewfinder. The photographer correctly sets the camera according to the instructions and shoots
Obtain a plurality of negatives having the same amount of information as the normal size negative information. The plurality of images thus obtained are laid out and edited by the video printer without any gap, and desired panoramic photographs can be obtained.

[0009]

Embodiments will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a camera with a gyro sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 100 denotes a camera body, which is a viewfinder (hereinafter referred to as a viewfinder).
1, a shutter 102, and a lens (imaging unit) 103 are arranged. Furthermore, a gyro sensor 104 that detects the camera body 100 as a moving body and detects the movement is provided on the upper portion of the camera body. It may be built in the camera.

The gyro sensor 104 has a function of detecting three degrees of freedom, that is, three-dimensional displacement. Assuming a camera looking at the three-dimensional coordinate axes from the viewfinder 101,
It is assumed that the right side in the horizontal direction is + x axis, the upper side in the vertical direction is + y axis, and the subject direction is + z axis. In FIG. 3, in the composition of FIG. 2, after taking the first image, the camera body is rotated around the y-axis.
This means that the second image was taken by rotating 100 clockwise by a predetermined angle. On the contrary, the same image can be obtained by first taking the second image of FIG. 3 and then rotating the camera body counterclockwise by a predetermined angle to take the first image. In this case, the images of the frames in FIG. 3 are replaced). In other words, if the movement information of the camera is known, it is possible to take a panoramic picture with more variety.

FIG. 4 shows an image structure which can be taken by the camera of this embodiment as viewed from the viewfinder. Now
The camera is located at the position indicated by the thick line frame (e) in the figure. The thin line inside the viewfinder is the image capture frame, points A, B, C,
D is an indicator that indicates a position match, 200 is an indicator that indicates a horizontal movement instruction, and 201 is an indicator that indicates a vertical movement instruction.

When the panoramic photograph shown in FIG. 3 is taken, first, in FIG. 4 (e), the shutter 102 is automatically focused and the reference image is taken. Next, when the camera is rotated so that the right side of the image is within the viewfinder, the gyro sensor 104 automatically recognizes the (f) direction, and the point A in the viewfinder at (f) is the viewfinder at (e). The horizontal / vertical indicators 200 and 201 are appropriately given to the user who moves the camera so that the point B in (f) matches the point C in (e) at point D in the figure. When the camera is moved according to the instruction and set at a predetermined position, the shutter is turned on automatically or manually.

Similarly, when the camera is moved in the direction (c), the horizontal and vertical indicators 200 are set so that the point B in the finder in (c) matches the point D in the finder in (e). , 201 to give instructions. By such an operation, as shown in FIG. 4, it is possible to take an image by arbitrarily combining images when vertically, horizontally, and diagonally moved. FIG. 5 shows a processing flow of the camera with a gyro sensor of this embodiment.

FIG. 6 shows the configuration of a video printer apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, which layout-edits and outputs a plurality of images photographed by the camera with a gyro sensor. 300 is an input device for inputting data such as editing instructions to the device, 301 is an external I / F for connecting a device for writing / reading to / from a recording medium such as a still video floppy disk or an IC video memory card, and 302 is An image processing device having a built-in arithmetic unit, 303 is an image display I / F for connecting an image display unit such as a general television, and 304 is a film reading unit for connecting a device for reading image information of negative film or positive film. An I / F, 305 is a memory for recording image information of a display image or an edited image, 306 is an image output device for outputting the edited image on a recording sheet, and these are connected to each other by a system bus 307. Further, this system is provided with a means for performing layout editing of a plurality of images photographed by the camera with a gyro sensor without gaps.

An image taken by a camera with a gyro sensor is connected to them through a film reading I / F 304 in the case of a film and an external I / F 301 in the case of other recording media, and edited from a device. The desired image is captured by the image processing device 302. The search for the image desired to be edited is always recorded from the reference image as shown in FIG. 4 (e), so that the user's own labor is reduced.

After the retrieval of the top image, the automatic connection processing is started.
As shown in FIG. 7, the reference image 310 is thinned out and displayed through the image display I / F 303, and the next image is similarly displayed.
Displayed at 11. In the case of the photographic configuration in FIG. 3, the input device 30
Select 0 to 5 to obtain the same composition. Here, when a panorama consisting of four images of the standard and 2, 3, 5 is photographed, FIG.
As described above, the connected portions 320 are automatically trimmed and written in the memory. The output image is an image that is smaller by the trimming, as shown on the right side of FIG. This trimming takes into consideration the aberration of the lens. The trimming amount is determined by detecting the movement amount by the gyro sensor of the camera. This makes it possible to easily form a large-sized image that does not deviate from the layout image of FIG. 7. FIG. 9 shows a processing flow of the video printer device of this embodiment.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A camera with a gyro sensor can be used to easily capture an arbitrary scene that is continuous with the reference scene, with the camera set correctly, and the multiple captured images can be captured by a video printer. Since the layout is edited without gaps by the apparatus, it is possible to obtain a high-quality panoramic photograph having the same amount of information as the negative size negative information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically showing a camera with a gyro sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a negative film of a conventional panoramic photograph.

3 is a diagram showing a negative film of a panoramic photograph that can be taken by the camera of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a movement instruction in the finder when a camera with a gyro sensor is moved from a reference shooting scene to shoot an adjacent scene.

FIG. 5 is a processing flowchart of a camera with a gyro sensor.

FIG. 6 is a system block diagram of a video printer device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display state of the image display device during image editing.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of trimming and image composition at the time of image editing.

FIG. 9 is a processing flowchart of the video printer device.

[Explanation of symbols]

100… camera body, 101… viewfinder, 102…
Shutter, 103 ... Lens, 104 ... Gyro sensor, 300 ... Input device, 301 ... External I / F, 302 ... Image processing device, 303 ... Image display I / F, 304 ... Film reading I / F, 305 ... Memory, 306 … Image output device.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A first shooting scene to a second adjacent to the first shooting scene
And a means for instructing the correct setting of the shooting position of the camera based on the detection signal of the gyro sensor when the camera is moved to the shooting scene A camera with a gyro sensor. 2. A video printer device comprising a means for performing layout editing of a plurality of images taken by the camera with a gyro sensor according to claim 1 without gaps.