TWI630558B - Diving recording apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

A diving recording device includes: a waterproof screen through which the underwater scene is viewed; an image acquisition unit for acquiring a time of a water biological image of a water creature encountered by a diver in a potential water; and a position acquisition unit for acquiring a position information of the diving recording device in the water and a time for acquiring the position of the diving recording device in the water; and a synthesizing unit for using the time of the acquired water biological image and the time of the obtained diving recording device in the water The image is associated with the location of the dive recording device in the water to form a composite of the location of the aquatic image in the water.

Description

Diving recording device

The present invention relates to the field of diving technology, and more particularly to a diving recording device.

Diving records and frog mirrors are common devices used by divers to dive. The dive record records the diver's dive time information in the water. While the frog mirror of Figure 1a has a camera function, the diver can capture the aquatic organism image by shooting the aquatic creatures in the water through the frog mirror; however, the diver cannot confirm the location of the shooting when shooting. In this way, it will make it difficult for divers to recall or record where they encounter aquatic life when they are going to the shore.

As shown in Figure 1b, it is a diving record table that records the diver's dive depth relative to the dive time, and waits for the dive to pass the photo or video taken in the water to the dive record manually. The information contained in the table is combined with information on the location (including depth) and time of the aquatic organism.

In order to combine the results of the previous case, it must be manually carried out by the diver after landing. It takes extra time and may result in incorrect information. Therefore, the present invention will automatically combine photo/photography with position/time. Relevant information to reduce the additional burden on divers and reduce the chance of information errors.

In view of this, it is necessary to provide a diving recording device that can quickly know what aquatic organisms are present.

A diving recording device, which is a wearable device, comprising: a waterproof screen through which the underwater scene is viewed; and an image acquisition unit for acquiring a water biograph of the aquatic organism encountered by the diver in the potential water a time acquisition unit for acquiring position information of the diving recording device in the water and acquiring the position of the diving recording device in the water; and a synthesizing unit for using the acquired time of the aquatic image and the obtained diving The time at which the position of the device is recorded in the water correlates the position of the water biological image with the position of the diving recording device in the water to form a composite of the position at which the aquatic image appears in the water.

The above diving record device associates the water biometric image with the location of the encounter with the aquatic organism, and quickly knows where the aquatic organism is present.

100‧‧‧Dive recording device

20‧‧‧Image acquisition unit

30‧‧‧Waterproof screen

40‧‧‧Location Acquisition Unit

50‧‧‧Synthesis unit

22‧‧‧First camera unit

24‧‧‧ switch

21‧‧‧Second camera unit

23‧‧‧Storage unit

25‧‧‧ Identification unit

27‧‧‧Image Determination Unit

42‧‧‧Longitude and latitude sensor

60‧‧‧Control unit

70‧‧‧ contrast button

80‧‧‧Save button

90‧‧‧Select button

95‧‧‧Waterproof layer

Fig. 1a is a schematic view of a diving recording device in the prior art.

Figure 1b is a schematic diagram of a diving record table in the prior art.

2 is a schematic view of a diving recording device.

Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the diving recording apparatus of Fig. 2 in the first embodiment.

4 is a block diagram of an image acquisition unit in the diving recording apparatus of FIG. 3 in an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an image acquisition unit in the diving recording apparatus of FIG. 3 in another embodiment. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the synthesized information formed by the synthesizing unit of FIG.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram showing a state in which the position acquisition unit in the diving recording apparatus of Fig. 3 is a diving record table.

Figure 8 is a block diagram of a position acquisition unit in the diving recording apparatus of Figure 3 in an embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the synthesized information formed by the synthesizing unit of FIG.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the diving recording apparatus of Fig. 2 having a display function.

Figure 11 is a block diagram of the diving recording device of Figure 2 having a display function in another embodiment.

Fig. 12 is an appearance of each button of the diving recording apparatus in each embodiment.

Figure 13 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of Figure 12 .

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , in the first embodiment, a diving recording apparatus 100 includes an image acquisition unit 20 , a waterproof screen 30 , a position acquisition unit 40 , and a synthesizing unit 50 . The dive recording device 100 is generally shaped like a goggle and is a wearable device for the diver to wear and view the underwater scene through the waterproof screen 30. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , the image acquisition unit 20 , the position acquisition unit 40 , and the synthesis unit 50 are fixedly disposed in the related structure of the waterproof screen 30 . In the embodiment described in FIG. 2, the image acquisition unit 20 is independent of the waterproof screen 30. When the waterproof screen 30 is to be replaced, the image acquisition unit 20 can be removed to be loaded on a new waterproof screen 30.

The image acquisition unit 20 is configured to acquire the time when the water biometric image encountered by the diver in the potential water acquires the aquatic image. Please refer to FIG. 4, in an embodiment, image acquisition Unit 20 includes a first camera unit 22 and a switch 24. The first imaging unit 22 is used to capture and record the time of imaging. The switch 24 is for controlling the first imaging unit 22 to take a water biological image according to the diver's operation. As such, when the diver encounters a aquatic creature and wants to take a picture of the aquatic organism, the first imaging unit 22 can be controlled to photograph the aquatic organism by the operation of the switch 24 to acquire the aquatic biological image.

Referring to FIG. 5, in another embodiment, the image acquisition unit 20 includes a second imaging unit 21, a storage unit 23, an identification unit 25, and an image determination unit 27. The second camera unit 21 immediately takes in the underwater image of the diver's potential water and records the time at which the underwater image is taken. The storage unit 23 is configured to store a water biological information database, and the aquatic biological information database includes related information of various aquatic organisms. The information about the aquatic organism includes information such as the name, picture and feature introduction of the aquatic organism. The identification unit 25 is configured to identify the aquatic organism in the ingested water scene according to the information of various aquatic organisms in the aquatic information database. The image determining unit 27 is configured to determine an underwater image including the aquatic organism in the ingested underwater scene based on the identified aquatic organism.

The position acquisition unit 40 is configured to acquire position information of the diving recording device 100 in the water and time for acquiring the position of the diving recording device 100 in the water. The location information includes the depth of the diving recording device 100 in the water. The synthesizing unit 50 is configured to time the water biological image and the diving recording device 100 in the water according to the time when the water biological image acquired by the image acquiring unit 20 and the position acquiring unit 40 acquire the position of the diving recording device 100 in the water. The location is associated with the formation of synthetic information about where the aquatic image appears in the water.

The composite information can be represented by a graph. In one embodiment, the synthetic information includes the location and the aquatic organism image and is represented by a one-dimensional coordinate map. The coordinate axis of the one-dimensional coordinate map is a position, and the corresponding position has a corresponding aquatic organism image. please Referring to FIG. 6, in another embodiment, the synthetic information includes the time, the location, and the aquatic organism image and is represented by a two-dimensional coordinate map. The vertical axis of the two-dimensional coordinate map is the depth, the horizontal axis is time, and the point corresponding to the time and depth has an image of the aquatic organism encountered at the time. In this way, when the diver returns to the land to view the dive record, he can see what time and depth of the submerged water encountered the aquatic life. In the embodiment described in FIG. 4, the aquatic organism image is a water biological image taken by the first imaging unit 22. In the embodiment described in FIG. 5, the aquatic organism image may be an underwater image taken by the second imaging unit 21, or may be the aquatic biological information corresponding to the aquatic organism in the identified underwater scene. Picture of Curry.

In one embodiment, the location acquisition unit 40 and the synthesis unit 50 are part of the diving recording device 100, and the composite information is performed by the diving recording device 100. Referring to FIG. 7, in another embodiment, the synthesizing unit 50 is part of the dive recording device 100. The position acquisition unit 40 is a diving record table 10 that is separated from the diving recording apparatus 100. The dive log 10 records the depth of the diver's potential water and the time at different depths. The dive recording table transmits the time and depth to the diving recording device 100. The synthesizing unit 50 combines the time, depth acquired by the dive recording table and the aquatic creature image acquired by the image acquiring unit 20 to generate the synthesized information.

Referring to FIG. 8, the location information further includes the latitude/longitude of the diving recording device 100 in the water. The position obtaining unit 40 includes a latitude and longitude sensor 42 by which the latitude/longitude of the diving recording device 100 in the water is sensed while recording the different latitude/longitude of the diving recording device 100 in the water. time. The synthesizing unit 50 is also used to acquire and acquire the time according to the different latitude/longitude of the diving recording device 100 in the water. The time of the aquatic image associates the aquatic image with the latitude/longitude of the diving recording device 100 located in the water.

Referring to FIG. 9, in this embodiment, the synthesized information is represented by a three-dimensional coordinate map. The three coordinates of the three-dimensional coordinates are longitude, latitude and depth, respectively, and corresponding time and latitude, depth and depth of the image of the aquatic organism encountered. The three-dimensional coordinates can be enlarged, lowered, or zoomed in, farther away, or even moved. Take a look at the aquatic creature images taken at different times and locations. The three-dimensional coordinates can be converted into two-dimensional coordinates, including no longitude and latitude information, converted to time corresponding to different depths and images of aquatic organisms encountered; and, if depth and time information is included, converted to different longitudes and latitudes An image of the aquatic creature encountered.

In an embodiment, the waterproof screen 30 of the diving recording device 100 also displays information about the aquatic organism in the recognized underwater scene in the first preset area, such as the name of the aquatic organism, compared to the embodiment described in FIG. , pictures and features and other information. The waterproof screen 30 of the diving recording device 100 also displays the underwater image acquired by the diving recording device 100 on the second preset display area. In one embodiment, the projector is configured to project information about the aquatic organism on the first predetermined area of the waterproof screen 30 to allow the diver to view the message. In another embodiment, the waterproof screen 30 can be provided with or attached to a self-illuminating structure, such as an OLED, etc., to display information about the aquatic organism. Referring to FIG. 10, in still another embodiment, the waterproof screen 30 of the diving recording device 100 itself has a display function and the diving recording device 100 further includes a control unit 60. The control unit 60 is configured to display information about the aquatic organism in the first preset area according to the water biological control waterproof screen 30 in the recognized underwater scene, such as the name, picture and feature introduction of the aquatic organism.

In an embodiment, the identification unit 25 in the above embodiment immediately recognizes the aquatic organism in the ingested underwater scene and displays the related information of the aquatic organism in real time on the first preset area. Referring to FIG. 11 , in another embodiment, the diving recording device 100 including the identification unit 25 in the above embodiment further includes a comparison button 70 that sends a comparison signal to the identification unit 25 in response to the diver's comparison operation. The recognition unit 25 recognizes the aquatic organism in the last water scene captured when receiving the identification signal, so that the waterproof screen 30 only relates the aquatic organism in the underwater scene recognized when the contrast button 70 is pressed. The information is displayed on the waterproof screen 30.

The diving recording device 100 also includes a store button 80. After viewing the information about the aquatic organism on the waterproof screen 30, the diver can store the current aquatic biological image and related information in the storage unit 23 by pressing the storage button 80. The diving recording device 100 also includes a selection button 90. The diver presses the selection button 90 to select other related messages that are recognized but followed by the position, and after selecting the relevant information that the diver thinks is the most correct, press the storage button 80 to store the water biological image and related information in the storage unit. 23 in.

The structure of the comparison button 70, the storage button 80, and the selection button 90 can be as shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, FIG. 12 is the appearance of each button, and FIG. 13 is the structure shown along the line A-A. Each button in FIG. 12 is covered by a waterproof layer 95 for blocking the penetration of water molecules; and when the diver presses each button through the waterproof layer, the corresponding related function is activated.

In other embodiments, the diving recording device 100 includes only one button, and the diving recording device 100 realizes identification, storage, selection, etc. according to different pressing methods (eg, different numbers of times, different strengths, different continuity of pressing, etc.). Features.

In an embodiment, whether the recognized image is stored together with the related information of the location acquiring unit 40 while storing the image may be determined according to the setting of the image acquiring unit 20 by the diver in advance; that is, When the diving recording device 100 is set, it is possible to first set the stored image without storing the location related information, or select the stored image and simultaneously store the location related information when storing the recognized image.

The above-mentioned diving recording device 100 associates the water biological image with the location of the encounter with the aquatic organism, and when the user leaves the water and returns to the land, the information that has been stored with the relevant position (or time) data can be identified. , output to the appropriate storage device as a user diving record, so that the diver knows what water creatures appear and other information.

Other suitable changes or modifications may be made by those skilled in the art in light of the actual needs of the invention, and such changes and modifications are within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

A diving recording device, the diving recording device being wearable, comprising: a waterproof screen through which the underwater scene is viewed; and an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a water biological image of the aquatic organism encountered by the diver in the potential water Time, wherein the image obtaining unit comprises a storage unit and a recognition unit, wherein the storage unit is configured to store a water biological information database, and the water biological information database includes related information of various aquatic organisms, and the identification unit uses Identifying the aquatic organism in the ingested water scene according to the information of various aquatic organisms in the aquatic biological information database; the location obtaining unit is configured to obtain the position information of the diving recording device in the water and obtain the position of the diving recording device in the water. a synthesis unit configured to associate a water biological image with a position of the diving recording device in the water according to a time of the acquired aquatic biological image and a time of the acquired position of the diving recording device in the water to form a water biological image a composite of the position of the water; and a comparison button that responds to the diver's comparison Ratio of the transmission signal to the identification unit, the identification unit performs the identification of the last picture of the water intake to the water organisms upon receiving the identification signal. The diving recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image acquisition unit comprises a first imaging unit for capturing and recording the time of imaging, and a switch for controlling the first imaging according to the operation of the diver The unit takes in water biological images. The dive recording device of claim 1, wherein the image acquisition unit further comprises a second image capturing unit and an image determining unit, wherein the second camera unit immediately takes in the underwater image of the diver's potential water and records the ingested water image. At the time of the image, the image determining unit is configured to determine an underwater image including the aquatic organism in the underwater scene taken according to the identified aquatic organism. The dive recording device of claim 3, wherein the waterproof screen displays information about the aquatic organism in the recognized underwater scene in the first predetermined area. The diving recording device of claim 4, wherein the identification unit instantly recognizes a water creature in the ingested water scene and displays the related information of the aquatic organism in real time on the first preset area. . The dive recording device of claim 1, wherein the waterproof screen displays information related to aquatic organisms in the underwater scene recognized when the button is pressed on the waterproof screen. The dive recording device of claim 4, wherein the dive recording device further comprises a storage button for storing the current aquatic biological image and related information in the storage unit by pressing the storage button. The diving recording apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 7, wherein the information about the aquatic organism includes a name, a picture, and a characteristic introduction of the aquatic organism. The diving recording device of claim 1, wherein the waterproof screen displays the underwater image acquired by the diving recording device on the second preset display area. The diving recording device of claim 1, wherein the synthetic information includes the time, the position, and the aquatic organism image and is represented by a two-dimensional coordinate map, the two-dimensional coordinate map The vertical axis is the depth and the horizontal axis is time, and the points corresponding to the time and depth have images of the aquatic organisms encountered at the time.