TW201642648A - Wisdom tracking camera - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a wisdom tracking camera comprising a device main body and a positioning tag. The device main body is form by a positive triangular pyramid, and four spheres, embedded separately to four point of the positive triangular pyramid. Any sphere is set two bearing within sensor. The device main body is set a main control module, a wireless WIFI module, a gravity sensor module and an electric spinning camera. The positioning tag is set on the shoot object. The wireless WIFI module receives the position information of the shoot object. According the position information, the main control module decides that the distance between the device main body and the shoot object bigger than the first preset distance. According to the collection direction signal, the control gravity sensor decides which face of the device main body is parallel to the ground, and then the main control module controls three spheres on the face to move, and move the device main body to the first preset distance, and controls the electric spinning camera spin and shoot. Which allows tracking and shooting any moving shoot object.

Description

Smart tracking camera

The invention relates to the field of photography and camera technology, and in particular to a smart tracking and photographing device.

With the development of photography and video technology, human beings can easily capture the scenes they see and share them with others. Among them, the camera technology is mainly used to record the related situation of the stationary subject matter, and the photography technique is mainly used to record the related situation of the moving photographed object. In practical applications, when shooting objects away from photography and camera equipment, it is often difficult to clearly record the relevant conditions. Therefore, it is especially important to clearly record moving objects that are far away from photography and camera equipment.

In order to solve the above problem, a fully automatic tracking camera (soloshot) is proposed in the prior art, which is provided by a tripod base that can automatically swing the head according to the sensing signal and a GPS positioning that can be worn on the arm. The armband is constructed. Any camera that can use a standard tripod can be connected to the tripod base. The user first connects the camera to the tripod base, then the GPS positioning arm ring is worn on the arm, and the tripod base automatically acquires the current user. GPS information, then the user pairs the GPS positioning arm ring with the tripod base, and the GPS information on the GPS positioning arm ring as the user moves (the distance required to move is within a certain distance, such as several hundred meters) It will be sent to the camera instantly, and the camera will automatically adjust the shooting angle and speed to shoot according to the geographical position.

However, since the camera connected to the base of the tripod cannot be moved, the camera connected to the base of the tripod and the GPS positioning arm ring can only communicate within a predetermined distance. When the moving object wearing the GPS positioning arm ring moves beyond the pre-predetermined distance When you set the distance, the camera will not be able to shoot it.

The invention provides a smart tracking shooting device, which can realize tracking shooting of an arbitrarily moving shooting object.

In a first aspect, the present invention provides a smart tracking imaging apparatus comprising: a device body and a positioning tag, the device body being composed of a regular triangular pyramid and four spheres respectively embedded in four vertices of the regular triangular pyramid, each sphere Provided thereon are two bearings with sensors, the bearing is provided with a motor for controlling the rotation of the bearing, and the four faces of the device body are transparent lenses;

The main body of the device is provided with a main control module, a wireless WIFI module, a gravity sensor and an electric rotating camera located at a central position of the main body of the device;

The positioning tag is disposed on the photographic object, and is configured to send a signal to the positioning server through the wireless local area network according to the preset period, so that the positioning server obtains the position information of the photographic object according to the intensity of the received signal and the time difference of the arrival of the signal. Sending location information of the object to the wireless WIFI module;

The wireless WIFI module is configured to receive location information of the captured object;

The main control module is configured to control, when the distance between the device body and the photographic object is within a first preset distance, to directly perform shooting according to the position information of the photographic object, not in the When the first preset distance is within, the gravity sensor is controlled to collect a direction signal of the device body;

The gravity sensor is configured to collect a direction signal of the device body, and determine a surface parallel to the ground among the four faces of the device body according to the collected direction signal;

The main control module is further configured to control three spheres on a plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range, and control the rotation of the electric rotating camera to perform shooting.

Further, the positive triangular pyramid is a regular tetrahedron, and when the direction signal collected by the gravity sensor changes, the gravity sensor is further configured to:

Re-determining a plane parallel to the ground of the four faces of the device body according to the collected direction signal;

The main control module is further configured to re-control three spheres on a plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range.

Further, each of the spheres is provided with two bearings with sensors, including:

The two bearings with the sensors are perpendicular to each other, and the two bearings with the sensors are tangent to the sphere;

The main control module is further configured to control three spheres on a plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range, including:

The main control module drives the bearing of the sensor to rotate by controlling a motor on a bearing of the sensor provided on the three spheres to move the three spheres to the first pre- Set the distance within the range.

Further, the device body further includes:

An ultrasonic distance sensor for detecting whether there is an obstacle within a second predetermined distance in front of the moving sphere;

The main control module is further configured to control a moving sphere to change a moving direction when the ultrasonic distance sensor detects an obstacle in a second preset distance in front of the moving sphere, and control the electric rotating camera to rotate Then shoot again.

Further, the device body further includes:

a storage module, configured to store a video file or image captured by the electric rotating camera;

The main control module is further configured to send the video file or image stored by the storage module to the positioning server according to a fixed period, so that the terminal device acquires a video file or image by accessing the positioning server. .

Further, the device body further includes:

a voice module, configured to receive a voice signal and parse the voice signal into voice information;

The main control module is further configured to perform a corresponding operation according to the voice information.

The intelligent tracking and photographing device provided by the invention sets the positioning body on the photographic object, sets the main body of the device as a regular triangular pyramid, and sets four spheres respectively embedded in the four vertices of the regular triangular pyramid, and two spheres are arranged on each spherical body. The bearing with the sensor receives the position information of the photographed object by the wireless WIFI module in the main body of the device, and the main control module in the main body of the device determines that the distance between the main body of the device and the photographed object is not according to the position information of the photographed object. When the first preset distance is within, the gravity sensor is controlled to collect the direction signal of the main body of the device, and the surface of the device body parallel to the ground is determined according to the collected direction signal, and then the main control module controls three spheres on the surface parallel to the ground. The movement moves the main body of the device to a first preset distance range, and controls the rotation of the electric rotating camera to perform shooting. This enables tracking shots of any moving subject.

The present invention will be clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are a part of the embodiments of the present invention. Instead of all the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

The smart tracking device of the present invention comprises: a device body and a positioning tag, wherein the positioning tag is disposed on the object, and the device body cooperates with the positioning tag to complete tracking and shooting of the object, and the smart tracking device of the invention can track the object in real time. The moving person or object can be moved at will, and the device body in the present invention is placed on the ground in use, and the positioning tag is disposed on the subject. The structural composition and working principle of the intelligent tracking and photographing device of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the device main body of the smart tracking and photographing device of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2 is composed of a positive triangular pyramid and four spheres embedded in four vertices of a regular triangular pyramid. FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a vertex in the apparatus body of the smart tracking imaging device of the present invention. As can be seen from FIG. 2, the sphere is embedded in the main body of the device. Inside the vertex. Each ball is provided with two bearings with sensors, the bearing is provided with a motor for controlling the rotation of the bearing, and the sensor on the bearing is used for obtaining the rotational speed of the bearing, and FIG. 3 is the main body of the device of the intelligent tracking and photographing device of the present invention. Schematic diagram of the top view of the sphere and the bearing. In Fig. 3, the bearing 2 with the sensor and the bearing 3 with the sensor are perpendicular to each other, and the bearing 2 with the sensor and the bearing 3 with the sensor are respectively connected with the sphere 4 cut. The four faces of the device body are transparent lenses. The main body of the device is provided with a main control module, a wireless WIFI module, a gravity sensor and an electric rotating camera 1 located at a central position of the main body of the device.

Specifically, the positioning tag is disposed on the shooting object, and is configured to send a signal to the positioning server through the wireless local area network according to the preset period, so that the positioning server acquires the position information of the shooting object according to the strength of the received signal and the time difference of the arrival of the signal. After that, the location information of the shooting object is sent to the wireless WIFI module. The positioning tag in the present invention may be a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) electronic tag. The RFID tag is an active RFID tag. The tag has a signal strength RSSI function, and each RFID tag corresponds to a unique tag. The ID number is convenient for software identification and data transmission. Specifically, the RFID electronic tag periodically transmits wireless signals, including tag ID information, wireless sensing information, and alarm information to the wireless routing RFID reader. The wireless routing RFID reader receives the wireless signal transmitted by the RFID electronic tag and transmits the wireless signal to the positioning server. Then, the positioning server acquires the position information of the photographed object according to the intensity of the received signal and the time difference of the arrival of the signal, and then transmits the position information of the photographed object to the wireless WIFI module. The wireless WIFI module is used to receive location information of the captured object. The main control module is configured to determine, according to the position information of the photographed object, the electric rotating camera to directly shoot when the distance between the main body of the device and the photographed object is within the first preset distance, and control the gravity when not within the first preset distance. The sensor collects a direction signal of the body of the device. The first preset distance is related to the performance and the angle of view of the electric camera, for example, it can be preset to 2 meters. The gravity sensor is configured to collect a direction signal of the device body, and determine a surface parallel to the ground among the four faces of the device body according to the collected direction signal. Specifically, the gravity sensor acquires XYZ data (the center of the coordinate axis is located at the center of the regular triangular pyramid), and according to the value of XYZ, it can be determined which surface of the current device body is parallel to the ground. The main control module is further configured to control the three spheres on the plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range, and control the rotation of the electric rotating camera to perform shooting. The main control module controls the three spheres on the plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range, specifically: the main control module drives the motor on the bearing with the sensor provided on the three spheres. The bearing with the sensor rotates to move the three spheres into the first predetermined distance range.

Wherein, when the device body is moving, other fast moving objects (human or animal or sweeping robot, etc.) may knock over the main body of the device, and the positive triangular pyramid in the main body of the device is set to a regular tetrahedral structure because Set to four squares with the same regular tetrahedron, the device body can be flipped at will, the shooting angle and shooting effect are not affected. Specifically, the xyz data of the gravity sensor in the main body of the device changes, and the sense of gravity When the direction signal collected by the detector changes, and the direction signal collected by the gravity sensor changes, the gravity sensor is further configured to: re-determine the four faces of the device body parallel to the ground according to the collected direction signal Face. The main control module is further configured to re-control three spheres on a plane parallel to the ground to move within a first preset distance range.

In order to solve the problem that the occlusion of the obstacle between the photographic object and the fully automatic tracking camera in the prior art is caused by the occlusion of the obstacle, the above-mentioned embodiment further includes:

An ultrasonic distance sensor for detecting whether there is an obstacle within a second predetermined distance in front of the moving sphere. The second preset distance is smaller than the first preset distance, and the main control module is further configured to control the moving sphere to change the moving direction when there is an obstacle in the second preset distance in front of the moving sphere detected by the ultrasonic distance sensor. And control the electric rotating camera to rotate before shooting. 4 is a schematic diagram of the main control module controlling the sphere to change the moving direction in the smart tracking device of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the black solid arrow is the direction in which the sphere advances, and the main control module controls one of the bearings counterclockwise. Rotate or turn clockwise to control the movement of the ball back and forth.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the operation of the smart tracking device of the present invention. The working principle of the smart tracking device of the present invention is described in detail below with reference to FIG. 5, including:

S101. Set a positioning label on the photographic subject.

The positioning tag sends a signal to the positioning server through the wireless local area network according to a preset period, and the positioning server acquires the position information of the shooting object according to the strength of the received signal and the time difference of the arrival of the signal, and then the positioning server sends the position information of the shooting object to the wireless device. WIFI module.

S102. The wireless WIFI module in the main body of the device receives the location information of the captured object.

S103. The main control module determines, according to the position information of the photographed object, whether the distance between the main body of the device and the photographed object is within a first preset distance. When it is within the first preset distance, S104 is executed, and when it is not within the first preset distance, S105 is performed.

S104. The main control module controls the electric rotating camera to directly shoot.

S105. Control a direction signal of the gravity sensor to collect the main body of the device.

The gravity sensor collects a direction signal of the main body of the device, and determines a surface of the device body parallel to the ground according to the collected direction signal.

S106. The main control module drives the bearing of the sensor with the motor on the bearing with the sensor disposed on the three spheres parallel to the ground surface to rotate the three spheres to drive the main body of the device to shoot The object moves and controls the electric rotating camera to rotate before shooting.

S107. During the movement of the three spheres to drive the main body of the device, the ultrasonic distance sensor detects whether there is an obstacle in the second preset distance in front of the moving sphere, and if so, executes S108; if not, continues to move to the object. .

S108. The main control module controls the moving sphere to change the moving direction, and controls the electric rotating camera to rotate before shooting.

S109: After the three spheres move to drive the main body of the device to move within a preset distance range, the movement is stopped and the tracking is completed.

Further, the device body further includes: a storage module, configured to store a video file or image captured by the electric rotating camera, and the main control module is further configured to send the video file or the image stored by the storage module to the positioning server according to a fixed period. For example, to enable the terminal device to instantly acquire a video file or image by accessing the positioning server. A terminal device refers to a terminal device that can access a wireless network or a mobile data network.

Further, the device body further includes: a voice module, configured to receive the voice signal and parse the voice signal into voice information. The main control module is also used to perform corresponding operations according to the voice information. For example, voice information is to track a tag, start, pause or end, or turn the camera left/right/up/down, and so on.

The intelligent tracking and photographing device provided by the invention sets the positioning body on the photographic object, sets the main body of the device as a regular triangular pyramid, and sets four spheres respectively embedded in the four vertices of the regular triangular pyramid, and two spheres are arranged on each spherical body. The bearing with the sensor receives the position information of the photographed object by the wireless WIFI module in the main body of the device, and the main control module in the main body of the device determines that the distance between the main body of the device and the photographed object is not according to the position information of the photographed object. When the first preset distance is within, the gravity sensor is controlled to collect the direction signal of the main body of the device, and the surface of the device body parallel to the ground is determined according to the collected direction signal, and then the main control module controls three spheres on the surface parallel to the ground. Move to the first preset distance range and control the electric rotary camera to rotate before shooting. This enables tracking shots of any moving subject.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of the steps of implementing the various method embodiments described above may be accomplished by hardware associated with the program instructions. The aforementioned program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. When the program is executed, the steps including the foregoing method embodiments are performed; and the foregoing storage medium includes: a medium that can store code, such as a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The present embodiments are merely illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not described in detail. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various modules or components described above are not necessarily required. In order to implement the invention, other well-known modules or elements of more detail may also be included. Each module or component may be omitted or modified as needed, and no other modules or components may exist between any two modules.

It should be noted that the above is only an embodiment, and is not limited to the embodiment. For example, those who do not depart from the basic structure of the present invention should be bound by the scope of the patent, and the scope of the patent application shall prevail.

1‧‧‧Electric rotating camera
2‧‧‧ bearing
3‧‧‧ Bearing
4‧‧‧ sphere

1 is a schematic structural view of a device main body of a smart tracking device according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a vertex of a device body of the smart tracking device of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the main control module controlling the sphere to change the moving direction in the smart tracking device of the present invention; FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the operation of the smart tracking device of the present invention.

1‧‧‧Electric rotating camera

Claims (6)

A smart tracking imaging device, comprising: a device body and a positioning tag, wherein the device body is composed of a regular triangular pyramid and four spheres respectively embedded in four vertices of the regular triangular pyramid, each sphere being provided with Two bearings with sensors, the bearing is provided with a motor for controlling the rotation of the bearing, the four faces of the device body are transparent lenses; the main body of the device is provided with a main control module and a wireless WIFI a module, a gravity sensor and an electric rotating camera located at a central position of the main body of the device; the positioning tag is disposed on the shooting object, and is configured to send a signal to the positioning server through the wireless local area network according to a preset period, the positioning servo The device obtains the position information of the photographed object according to the intensity of the received signal and the time difference of the arrival of the signal, and sends the position information of the photographed object to the wireless WIFI module; the wireless WIFI module is configured to receive the position information of the photographed object. The main control module is configured to judge according to the position information of the photographed object Controlling the electric rotating camera to directly perform shooting when the distance between the main body of the device and the photographic object is within a first preset distance, and controlling the gravity sensor to collect when not within the first preset distance a direction signal of the device body; the gravity sensor is configured to collect a direction signal of the device body, and determine a surface parallel to the ground in the four faces of the device body according to the collected direction signal; The module is further configured to control three spheres on a plane parallel to the ground to move into the first preset distance range, and control the rotation of the electric rotating camera to perform shooting. The smart tracking device of claim 1, wherein the positive triangular pyramid is a regular tetrahedron, and when the direction signal collected by the gravity sensor changes, the gravity sensor is further configured to: The collected direction signal re-determines a plane parallel to the ground in the four faces of the device body; the main control module is further configured to re-control three spheres on a surface parallel to the ground to move to the first preset Distance range. The smart tracking device of claim 2, wherein each of the spheres is provided with two bearings with sensors, including: two bearings with sensors are perpendicular to each other, and two senses are provided. The bearing of the detector is tangential to the sphere; the main control module is further configured to control the movement of the three spheres on the surface parallel to the ground to the first predetermined distance range, including: the master control module passes Controlling a motor on the sensor-equipped bearing disposed on the three spheres drives the bearing of the belt sensor to rotate to move the three spheres into the first predetermined distance range. The smart tracking device of claim 3, wherein the device body further comprises: an ultrasonic distance sensor for detecting whether there is an obstacle within a second predetermined distance in front of the moving sphere; The main control module is further configured to control the moving sphere to change the moving direction when the ultrasonic distance sensor detects an obstacle in the second preset distance in front of the moving sphere, and control the electric rotating camera to rotate Take a picture. The smart tracking device of claim 4, wherein the device body further comprises: a storage module, configured to store a video file or image captured by the electric rotating camera; And transmitting the video file or image stored by the storage module to the positioning server according to a fixed period, so that the terminal device acquires a video file or an image in real time by accessing the positioning server. The smart tracking device of claim 5, wherein the device body further comprises: a voice module, configured to receive a voice signal and parse the voice signal into voice information; For performing corresponding operations according to the voice information.