26 results about "Digital camera" patented technology

A digital camera comprises a solid state imaging device provided with an optical low-pass filter. A photographing optical system forms an object image on a light receiving surface of a CCD through the optical low-pass filter. An electronic-charge accumulation-time control program is stored in a ROM of a system control circuit to determine optimum exposure parameters according to which a photography is performed. The electronic-charge accumulation-time control program has a program diagram showing a relationship between an electronic-charge accumulation-time and an aperture value and/or an ISO speed.

When a shutter button of a digital camera is pressed, a picture signal fetched from a CCD is converted to a digital signal and compressed and written into a nonvolatile memory means like a flash memory card as a picture file which can be identified uniquely. By turning on a reproduction switch, a picture file is read out from the nonvolatile memory means, the compressed data is expanded and converted to an analog signal, and the converted picture is displayed on a liquid crystal display. By pressing a display feed key, another picture file is read out and displayed. A user can produce a control file for controlling print processing, display processing, transmission processing and the like for the picture file by selecting a particular picture file using an operation key. The nonvolatile memory means can be removed. By mounting this memory means on a printer unit, display unit or picture transmission unit, the digital camera also can be used during print, display or transmission of the picture. If multi-screen print is carried out on the printer unit, a vertical direction of each picture is unified. Further, upon reprint operation for multiple order persons, sorting work after the print is facilitated by providing with an identification means for identifying each order person.

The invention discloses an apparatus and a method for determining high temperature wettability. The apparatus comprises a heater body, a heating portion, an extruding dripping portion, a sample supporting portion and an image acquisition and processing portion. The heater body is comprised of a stainless steel cavity, a furnace lid and a No. 3 fluorine rubber ring bolt connecting together. A shielding layer in the heating portion is arranged in the center of a furnace bottom in the heater body, and a heating member is placed at the center of the shielding layer. The extruding dripping portionis perpendicularly arranged on an upper end of the heater body, and a lower end of a thermocouple in the heating portion, a lower end of the extruding dripping portion and an upper end of a sample bench are placed in the heater body. A substrate is placed at top of the sample bench. Two sets of CCD digital cameras or CMOS high speed cameras in the image acquisition and processing portion and a light source are respectively placed at the front and rear and the left and right of the heater body, and are in a same horizontal line with a symmetric axis of a quartz glass observation window, a wallthrough hole on the shielding layer and a heating member through hole on the heating member. The invention also provides a method for determining high temperature wettability.

In a computerized film (digital camera action) production system, a virtual director module takes responsibility for creating sets, and enabling cinematography by creating a synthetic parallax matching of a “set” image to what would have existed before a camera in real motion about the physical location represented. This overcomes failures typical of “green screen” technology in dealing with such conditions as shallow depth of field and low light. Computer generated, synthetic sets from a 3D animator may be projected behind real actors during or after filming. Sythetic sets are seen through a virtual camera as photo-realistic because they are skinned with textures, and structured geometrically, to match reality represented by actual still photography of a physical environment, such as buildings, walls, streets, landscapes, props, and the like.

The present invention relates generally to both a system and method for visually (e.g., via a video-based system or some other visual system) monitoring one or more objects where such objects are obscured by a high intensity light source such as a plasma, flame, or welding arc. In one embodiment, a system in accordance with the present invention comprises a digital camera, at least one light emitting diode (LED) light source, and at least one filter. In another embodiment, a system in accordance with the present invention comprises a digital camera, at least one light emitting diode (LED) light source, and at least one filter selected from a notch filter, a neutral density filter, or combinations thereof. Additionally, the system of the present invention can further include software designed to process, interpret and/or collect various data captured by the visual monitoring, or, imaging, system of the present invention.

The invention relates to an unmanned corn harvester, and belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle application. An unmanned aerial vehicle flies in low altitude over the unmanned corn harvester which performs corn harvesting operation, the lower face of the front portion of the unmanned aerial vehicle is provided with an electro-optical pod, a high-pixel digital camera installed in the electro-optical pod performs full-automatic photography work by aiming at the corn harvester which harvests corn and surrounding corn field, an image sensor of the digital camera inputs acquired aerial image information of grain field into a first electronic computer to be stored and imaged, and a digital image is input into a flight control computer to guide flying of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The aerial image information of the grain field is input into a second electronic computer through a first wireless communication device in the unmanned aerial vehicle, radio waves and a second wireless communication device in the unmanned corn harvester to be stored and calculated, and a calculated result is input into an unmanned self-control driving device to control a corn harvesting table arranged on the front portion of the unmanned corn harvester to perform operation of harvesting the corn.

The invention relates to a high-thermal-conductivity high-electrical-conductivity carbon nano-grade composite material. The material is characterized in that a polymer with a mass percentage of 3-30% is stuck and coated on the surface of carbon-based micro-nano powder with a mass percentage of 70-97%, and press molding is carried out, such that the material is obtained. According to the composite material, a layer of polymer is coated on the surface of high-thermal-conductivity high-electrical-conductivity carbon-based micro-nano powder with a water suspension method, such that the high-thermal-conductivity high-electrical-conductivity carbon nano-grade composite material powder is prepared. Preparation efficiency is high. When the method provided by the invention is used in preparing the high-thermal-conductivity high-electrical-conductivity carbon nano-grade composite material, the method is simple and feasible. The content of the carbon-based micro-nano powder filling material is high. The method can satisfy actual requirements of large-batch productions. The prepared high-thermal-conductivity carbon nano-grade material has good electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity, and can be applied in 3D printing materials, chemical equipment heat exchangers, laptops, high-power LED lightings, flat panel displays, digital cameras, mobile communication products, and fields of related miniaturized and high speed electronic components.

The invention relates to a method of annotation of images captured by a digital camera equipped with a previewing means, comprising:

• • the supply with the camera of an operating mode enabling a user to select one image (12) to be annotated, and to capture at least one additional previewed image; the automatic extraction (20) of an annotation (A) from the additional image; and the creation (22) of a new image by combining the annotation (A) and the image to be annotated (12), while respecting, in the new image, a location and enlargement ratio of the annotation virtually identical to those of the annotation in the additional image.

The invention relates to a plating method for an anti-reflection film with high transmittance and low reflectivity, wherein the method is the key technology of window glasses and filters of digital cameras, and the technology can further be applied in fields of radiation protection glasses, thermal insulation glasses, window glasses, solar energy utilization and the like. The method comprises the following steps in vacuum plating equipment: (1) pumping vacuum; (2) heating; (3) cleaning ions (Ar and O2); (4) plating SiO2; (5) etching under full oxygen atmosphere (only introducing O2); (6) plating TiO2; and (7) etching under full oxygen atmosphere (only introducing O2), and repeated performing the steps of (4)-(7) until the film system is completed. According to the present invention, the transmittance of the anti-reflection film in the optical wavelength region of 400-700 nm is improved without improvement of vacuum plating equipment requirements, and the reflectivity is further reduced.

The invention relates to the hydraulic forming technology of an alloy plate, in particular to a magnesium alloy digital camera casing with a movable male die and a similar product hydraulic forming special-purpose die assembly. The technology is mainly used for the heating, the hydraulic pressure, the drawing and the forming of the magnesium alloy sheet material. The die assembly is provided with a hydraulic pressure room, a concave die, a clamping ring, a drawing male die and a heating element. The drawing male die adopts a blocking type composite structure, and comprises a fixed male die and a movable male die moving along a slip way up and down. The movable element in the combined drawing male die improves the deformation sequence and the stressed state of a forming part, to lead the limit of the sheet material to being formed and the rate of finished products to be improved. The invention has the advantages that the availability of material is high, the surface quality of a manufactured product is good, the rigidity is high, the shape and the dimension precision are high, the invention can form a complicated plate part with a digital camera casing and other shapes, in particular to the plate part required to be heated and formed when forming a magnesium alloy plate part; the service life of the die assembly is long, the replacement is simple, and the process and the installation are simple.

Systems and methods of providing spatially dependent image exposure information to a user of a digital camera. The described approach is applicable to determination of image exposure quality in a digital camera system. In these applications an image is displayed in a first display mode wherein the exposure information is overlaid on the image or in a second display mode wherein the exposure information is eliminated or reduced and thus is less obstructive of the image. In the second display mode, a separate exposure warning optionally conveys a subset of the information displayed in the first display mode. The invention includes a user input operable to temporarily specify a change in the display of the image between the first mode and the second mode while an image is displayed, thus providing the user with direct control of the presence and duration of spatially dependent image exposure information.

An image restoration method includes providing image data (260) including image statistics (230) using a digital camera module. A set of digital camera module characterization parameters is selected from a common dynamic camera configuration file (210) using the image statistics (230). The selected digital camera module characterization parameters are converted to image signal processing parameters and the image data is tuned using the image signal processing parameters for providing a tuned image (270). The method may involve lens shading correction as well adjusting the processing to the characteristics of the image sensor (250).

The invention provides an automatic quick focusing method for high order moment, the relation between image f(x, y) in the camera, the object g(x, y) and the point expanding function of the imaging system of the camera h(x, y) are expressed into formula 1, thus it can shoot three frames of image from three different positions, thus the focusing position of the digital camera can be determined according to the three frames of images.

A sight distance visibility meter and a measuring method thereof can simulate light sensitivity of human normal vision truly to obtain atmospheric visibility distance directly and truly, and relate to the fields of real-time monitoring of agglomerate fogs in highways and atmospheric visibility distance measurement. The sight distance visibility meter comprises a target body, and an optical amplifier, a near infrared plane array CCD (charge coupled device) and an embedded signal processing unit which are connected sequentially, as well as a fog energy actuator arranged between the target body and the optical amplifier. Compared with the digital camera visibility distance measurement method, the method provided by the invention has the advantages of all-weather, high measurement accuracy, good stability, simple structure, small volume, low cost and the like due to the fact that the method does not needed a scene reference, is free from the affects of environmental factors like light and temperature in the atmospheric environment and acts no matter day and night, and the method is applicable for the real-time measurement of distance visibility and highway agglomerate fog monitoring needing intensive stationing.

A port monitor allows a computer, digital camera, or other device to send a print job to a target printer, where the only known information about the printer is its network address. Communication is attempted to the network address, sequentially using each of a plurality of port numbers. If none of the plurality of port numbers is successful in initiating communication to the network address, communication to the network address is attempted using an LPR port number, sequentially using each of a plurality of LPR queue names.

The wall advertisement projecting device solves the issues of fixed format, small size, high cost in updating, using remote wireless control switch and shared hardware DLP light processing digital camera, increasing the sound effect in advertisement release, realizing updated convenience, less consumption and making cost, with animated effect, enlarged capacity, advertisement releasing effect, applicable for wall or outdoor advertisement.

The invention relates to a gradient mirror processing method for a digital image, which is used for adjusting the brightness difference in the digital image through a digital camera. The gradient mirror processing method comprises the following steps: an image boundary of the digital image is determined according to the image difference conditions in one digital image; and a gradient image layer is used in the digital image along the vertical direction of the image boundary to adjust the brightness difference in the digital image. The corresponding image boundary is generated according to the image difference conditions in the digital image, and the gradient mirror processing is performed to the digital image according to the image boundary so as to adjust the brightness among the different areas for the digital image. Therefore, the digital image is more realistic for the shooting scenes.

The invention discloses a method for measuring a diameter at breast height of a tree in a permanent sample plot by multi-piece continuous photogrammetry. The method disclosed by the invention is mainly applied to small-scale forest resource survey, continuous photogrammetry is performed around the permanent sample plot by using a fixed-focus camera, and the fixed-focus camera is used as a tool toperform photogrammetry along the circumference and a diagonal direction of the permanent sample plot to take a digital photo of the sample plot; and a three-dimensional model of the tree in the sampleplot is extracted, and coordinates (x, y, z) and the diameter at breast height of each sample tree in the sample plot are obtained by matching and constructing the three-dimensional model of the sample plot.

The invention discloses a rotatable LCD (liquid crystal display) control system applied to a digital camera. The rotatable LCD control system comprises an analog-digital conversion unit, a sensing unit, a main control unit, a display unit and an execution unit which are connected with a main control module of the camera, the analog-digital conversion unit, the sensing unit, the execution unit and the display unit are connected with the main control unit respectively, and the execution unit is connected with a lens module of the camera; in a working state, the sensing unit is mounted on the lens module of the camera and used for sensing sensing signals applied on a lens by a user, converting the sensing signals into electric signals and then transmitting the electric signals to the main control unit, the main control unit receives the sensing signals, processes the same and outputs a control instruction, and the execution unit receives instruction information to rotate the lens module by corresponding angles.