WO2012102505A2

WO2012102505A2 - Camera system capable of omnidirectional and zoom photographing of object

Info

Publication number: WO2012102505A2
Application number: PCT/KR2012/000354
Authority: WO
Inventors: 심광호; 이종훈
Original assignee: 건아정보기술 주식회사
Priority date: 2011-01-28
Filing date: 2012-01-16
Publication date: 2012-08-02
Also published as: WO2012102505A3; KR101057858B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a camera system capable of omnidirectional and zoom photographing of an object, and more specifically, to a camera system capable of omnidirectional and zoom photographing of an object, comprising a basic camera, inside one camera housing, for photographing the object from a plurality of angles, and a plurality of zoom cameras for photographing the object at a zoomed state, thereby enabling 360 degrees omnidirectional photographing of the object and displaying close images at the same time.

Description

Camera system for omni-directional shooting and zoom shooting

The present invention relates to a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject, and more particularly, a plurality of zoom cameras for photographing a subject in a state where the subject is zoomed and a main camera for photographing the subject at various angles in one camera housing. The present invention relates to a camera system capable of omni-directional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject capable of displaying a close-up image while simultaneously photographing a subject 360-degree.

A conventional camera for photographing a general subject has no choice but to photograph any part of an object (subject).

In other words, if the object is moving from the A position to the B position, only the front of the A position and the rear side of the B position can be photographed.

Recently, there has been a need for images that can be obtained not only in the left and right directions of a subject, but also in multiple angles or 360 degrees.

In particular, images from various directions may be used to analyze subjects later and may be used in various fields such as crime, prevention, and fashion analysis.

However, the conventional image could not satisfy the above trend.

On the other hand, in the case of a conventional camera providing a pan, tilt, and zoom function, the operation of the motor for processing the pan, tilt, and zoom is inevitably frequent, so that a breakdown occurs frequently and the maintenance cost is inevitably high.

Therefore, the present invention arranges a plurality of cameras that are not zoomed in one camera housing, and arranges a plurality of cameras that are already zoomed in to obtain an image that provides a screen and a proximity screen at a desired angle without operation of a motor. I would like to propose a system that can be utilized.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to include a main camera for photographing a subject at various angles in one camera housing and a zoom camera for photographing the subject in a zoomed state. The camera is configured to capture 360-degree subjects and display close-up images.

Another object of the present invention is to install a plurality of LED lighting unit at a predetermined interval around a plurality of basic cameras and a zoom camera in one camera housing to provide a flash effect, as well as a lighting effect when shooting a camera.

It is still another object of the present invention to acquire a omnidirectional image obtained from a basic camera photographing a subject at various angles and a zoom camera photographing the subject in a zoomed state and to display the panorama image or a 3D image.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a high-definition screen or a close-up screen of a desired angle by processing an image taken from a basic camera or a zoom camera set by the frame setting unit as a set frame when the user sets a frame. have.

In order to achieve the problem to be solved by the present invention,

Camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of the subject according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A camera housing;

A camera system comprising: a camera installed in the camera housing;

A plurality of basic cameras 100 installed in the camera housing and photographing a subject;

A plurality of zoom cameras 200 configured to be spaced apart from the plurality of basic cameras at predetermined intervals to zoom and photograph a subject; and configured to display the images acquired by the basic camera and the zoom camera. Through the problems of the present invention.

As described above, the camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of the subject of the present invention,

It consists of a main camera that photographs the subject from various angles and a plurality of zoom cameras that capture the subject while zooming the subject so that the subject can be photographed 360-degree and simultaneously and the close-up image can be displayed. Using the camera group of the 360 degrees without a blind spot to provide an effect that can be photographed.

In addition, a number of LED lighting units are installed at a predetermined interval around a plurality of basic cameras and zoom cameras in one camera housing to provide interior effects by simultaneously providing not only a flash function but also a lighting effect. You can do it.

In addition, by acquiring the omnidirectional image obtained from the basic camera for photographing the subject from various angles and the zoom camera for zooming in on the subject, and displaying it as a panorama image or a three-dimensional image, a more dynamic subject image can be utilized. Can provide an effect.

In addition, when a user sets a frame, the image captured by the basic camera or the zoom camera set by the frame setting unit is processed as a set frame so that a screen or a proximity screen of a desired angle can be provided in a high quality image. Will provide a better effect that enables accurate image confirmation.

1 is a perspective view illustrating an example in which a plurality of cameras are configured inside a camera housing of a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an example in which a plurality of cameras are configured in a camera housing of a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block diagram of an image control unit of a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject according to an embodiment of the present invention.

* Detailed description of the major symbols in the drawings *

100: basic camera

200: zoom camera

300: LED lighting

500: image control means

Camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of the subject of the present invention for achieving the above object,

A camera housing;

A camera system comprising: a camera installed in the camera housing;

And a plurality of zoom cameras 200 configured to be spaced apart from the plurality of basic cameras at predetermined intervals to zoom an image of the subject, and display the images acquired by the basic camera and the zoom camera.

On the other hand, the camera system capable of omnidirectional shooting and zoom shooting of the subject according to another embodiment of the present invention,

A camera housing;

A camera system comprising: a camera installed in the camera housing;

A plurality of zoom cameras 200 configured to be spaced apart from the plurality of basic cameras at predetermined intervals to zoom and photograph a subject;

And image control means 500 for displaying images acquired by the plurality of basic cameras and zoom cameras, and displaying images acquired from a basic camera or zoom camera corresponding to a designated shooting area in a set frame. It is characterized by.

At this time, according to an additional aspect of one embodiment and another embodiment is provided a plurality of LED lighting unit 300 installed at a predetermined interval inside the camera housing to provide illumination; characterized in that it further comprises a configuration.

At this time, the image control means 500,

A frame setting unit 510 for setting a frame of a specific basic camera or a zoom camera,

A basic camera image storage unit 520 for storing an image corresponding to a specific angle of a subject acquired by a plurality of basic cameras;

A zoom camera image storage unit 530 for storing an image corresponding to a specific angle of a subject acquired by a plurality of zoom cameras;

An image display unit 550 for displaying an image stored in the basic camera image storage unit and a zoom camera image storage unit;

A setting frame processing unit 560 for processing an image photographed from the basic camera or the zoom camera set by the frame setting unit into a set frame;

ID information storage unit 570 that stores the ID information and shooting area information of the basic camera and zoom camera,

The frame setting unit 510, the basic camera image storage unit 520, the zoom camera image storage unit 530, the image display unit 550, the setting frame processing unit 560, and the ID information storage unit ( And an image controller 580 for controlling a signal flow between the cameras 570.

At this time, the image control means 500 according to an additional aspect,

And a panoramic image converting unit 540 for converting images corresponding to a specific angle stored in the basic camera image storing unit and the zoom camera image storing unit into a panoramic image.

At this time, the image control means 500 according to another additional aspect,

And a subject three-dimensional image converting unit which acquires images of a subject corresponding to a specific angle stored in the basic camera image storage unit 520 and the zoom camera image storage unit 530 and converts them into three-dimensional images. do.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the camera system capable of omnidirectional shooting and zoom shooting of the subject of the present invention.

1 to 2, a camera system capable of omnidirectional photographing and zoom photographing of a subject according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A camera housing 50;

A camera system comprising: a camera installed in the camera housing;

The general camera is installed on a wall or ceiling of a specific space, the camera housing 50 is formed on the front of the case 40, and the camera is taken inside the camera housing to take an image.

In this case, since the captured image is not various angles, only an image of an angle that can be photographed by the camera can be obtained.

In addition, in order to capture close-up images or images of different angles, a camera equipped with a pan, tilt, and zoom function should be mounted.

However, since the camera is operated by a motor in order to perform various angles or close-up photography, the motor operation is inevitably frequent, so that failure occurs frequently, and thus, maintenance costs are inevitably significant.

In order to solve the above problems, a technique of photographing using an omnidirectional lens has been disclosed, but this also could not capture a zoomed image of a desired angle.

Therefore, in the present invention, a plurality of basic cameras 100 for photographing a subject in one camera housing;

The plurality of basic cameras are installed to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval to install and configure a plurality of zoom cameras 200 for zooming a subject.

As shown in FIG. 2, the basic cameras are arranged at regular intervals, and a plurality of zoom cameras are arranged at regular intervals along the outer periphery of the basic camera.

Then, images of various angles may be acquired by the basic camera, and proximity images of various angles may be obtained through a zoom camera that is already zoomed.

If the configuration as described above will reduce the maintenance cost according to the conventional frequent motor failure, it provides a better effect that can block the monitoring gap when replacing.

In addition, when the conventional camera is zoomed to solve the problem that the remaining part is not visible, it is possible to eliminate the blind spots of the monitoring.

On the other hand, according to an additional aspect of the present invention, a plurality of LED lighting unit 300 is configured to be provided at a predetermined interval inside the camera housing to provide illumination; may be configured to further include.

That is, a number of LED lighting units are installed at a predetermined interval around a plurality of basic cameras and zoom cameras in one camera housing to provide interior effects by simultaneously providing not only a flash function but also a lighting effect. You can do it.

You'll feel like you're being watched by so many cameras right now, so you're going to give your camera a light effect to solve it, and the aesthetics that beautiful lights provide will be significant.

As shown in FIG. 3, the present invention displays an image acquired by a plurality of basic cameras and a zoom camera, and controls an image to display an image obtained from a basic camera or a zoom camera corresponding to a designated shooting area in a set frame. It comprises a means (500).

The image control unit acquires images photographed at various angles from the cameras and displays them on the screen of the manager, and the manager sets the image or the proximity image photographed at a specific angle in advance to be provided in high quality.

In this case, the images obtained from the set cameras are displayed in the set frame.

If the subject is a human, a general basic camera or a zoom camera is used, but if the camera is installed as an infrared camera if necessary, the subject can be checked at night, and the infrared camera identifies the clothing worn by the subject. If you display a number that can be, you can analyze the personal information of the subject.

Conventionally, only one camera is configured so that the camera only photographs the front part of the subject or the part exposed to the camera lens, so that the back side, the left side, or the right side of the subject cannot be identified.

On the other hand, in the case of the present invention, it is possible to shoot omnidirectional without blind spots when monitoring a specific area.

A user may drive an operating program mounted in the image control means for checking the image photographed by the camera, and display an operation screen for the user to check the image photographed by the operating program.

As shown in Figure 4, the image control means 500 according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A setting frame processing unit 560 for processing an image photographed from a basic camera or a zoom camera set by the frame setting unit into a set frame;

The frame setting unit 510, the basic camera image storage unit 520, the zoom camera image storage unit 530, the image display unit 550, the setting frame processing unit 560, and the ID information storage unit ( And an image control unit 580 for controlling a signal flow therebetween.

The image controller stores various images corresponding to specific angles of the subject acquired by the plurality of basic cameras in the basic camera image storage unit, and stores various zoomed images of the subjects acquired by the plurality of zoom cameras in the zoom camera image. It is stored in wealth.

In addition, the image captured by the main camera and the image captured by the zoom camera are displayed separately in the area presented on the operating program.

According to an additional aspect, the camera may further include a panorama image converter 540 converting images corresponding to a specific angle stored in the basic camera image storage unit and the zoom camera image storage unit into a panorama image.

Since it may or may not synthesize the photographed image may be additionally configured to the panorama image conversion unit at the time of synthesis if necessary.

The frame setting unit 510 sets a frame of a specific basic camera or a zoom camera. In this case, when the administrator sets the basic camera or zoom camera desired by the administrator, the ID of the basic camera and the zoom camera stored in the ID information storage unit 570 is set. The information is provided to the user with reference to the photographing area information.

The angle photographed by the camera may be known by referring to the ID information.

That is, the camera of # 1 is the basic camera, and the shooting angle is 15 degrees from the front to the right.

To this end, the shooting angle information for each ID is stored in the ID information storage unit.

In addition, if the administrator sets the frame to show on the screen at 5 frames / second from # 1 to # 5, and the remaining cameras on the screen at a low frame, that is, 15 frames / second, the video taken from the set main camera or zoom camera This is to process the frame set by the setting frame processing unit 560.

As another example, when the basic cameras are set to 15 frames / second and the zoom cameras are set to 5 frames / second, the basic cameras output on the screen as frames set by the setting frame processor.

Then, the manager can check the images as he set from high frame to low frame.

The low frame means a frame lower than the set high frame.

If you set the high frame rate of the video from all the cameras, there may be a considerable time delay until the display, so that you cannot serve the purpose of surveillance properly. It is impossible.

Meanwhile, according to an additional aspect of the present invention, a three-dimensional subject image which acquires images of a subject corresponding to a specific angle stored in the basic camera image storage unit 520 and the zoom camera image storage unit 530 and converts them into three-dimensional images. It may be configured to further include a converter.

This is to provide a better effect of utilizing a more dynamic subject image.

In addition, synthesizing images of the same subject provides a better effect of producing a stereo image.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, if the angle of view is 90 degrees for each camera, four cameras are required to shoot 360 degrees, and thus four cameras are installed to take the top, bottom, left, and right cameras.

At this time, if you zoom in too small to take 9x zoom to take close-up images, if you assume that the angle is 30 degrees, you cannot see up, down, left, and right at 30 degrees. To compensate for this, 30 degrees is 3 X 3, so 9 pieces are needed.

Therefore, 36 zoom cameras are installed in the drawing.

Through the above-described configuration and operation, a main camera for photographing the subject from various angles and a plurality of zoom cameras for photographing the subject in a zoomed state are configured in one camera housing to capture the subject 360 degrees and at the same time close-up images. By allowing to display, it is possible to provide a 360-degree omnidirectional shooting without a blind spot using one camera group.

Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains as described above may understand that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not restrictive.

The scope of the invention is indicated by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the invention. do.

According to the present invention, a main camera for photographing a subject from various angles and a plurality of zoom cameras for photographing a subject in a zoomed state can be configured to display a close-up image simultaneously with 360-degree photographing of the subject. By using one camera group, it is possible to provide 360-degree omnidirectional shooting without blind spots and thus will be widely used in the security field.

Claims

A camera housing;

A camera system comprising: a camera installed in the camera housing;

A main camera 100 installed at least one in order to photograph a subject in the camera housing;

A zoom camera 200 spaced apart from the basic camera and installed at least one to zoom and photograph a subject;

A frame setting unit 510 for setting a frame of a specific basic camera or a zoom camera,

A basic camera image storage unit 520 for storing images of a subject acquired by a basic camera installed at least one or more;

A zoom camera image storage unit 530 for storing images of a subject acquired by at least one zoom camera installed and;

An image display unit 550 for displaying images stored in the basic camera image storage unit and the zoom camera image storage unit;

A setting frame processing unit 560 for processing images photographed from a basic camera or a zoom camera set by the frame setting unit into a set frame;

ID information storage unit 570 that stores the ID information and shooting area information of the basic camera and zoom camera,

The frame setting unit 510, the basic camera image storage unit 520, the zoom camera image storage unit 530, the image display unit 550, the setting frame processing unit 560, and the ID information storage unit ( And an image control unit (500) configured to include an image control unit (580) for controlling a signal flow between the cameras (570).
The method of claim 1,

The image control means 500,

And a panoramic image converting unit (540) for converting images stored in the basic camera image storing unit and the zoom camera image storing unit into a panoramic image.
The method of claim 1,

The image control means 500,

The subject camera image storage unit 520 and the zoom camera image storage unit 530 to obtain the images stored in the three-dimensional image of the subject to convert the three-dimensional image conversion unit further comprises a photographing and zooming of the subject Camera system that can shoot.