Electronic imaging system for capturing and displaying images in real time

• US 10,063,780 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shan-Le Shih
• Original Assignee: Shan-Le Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Shan-Le
• Primary Examiner(s): Flohre, Jason A
• Application Number:
  US15/298,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20170041551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/005 using at least one opto-electrical conversion device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An electronic imaging system for capturing and displaying the images in real time is disclosed, which includes a controller, a display device and a left to right mirror module. The controller has a camera lens and a transmission unit. The camera lens can capture the image signals. The transmission unit transmits the captured image signals. The display device has a receiving unit and a display unit. The receiving unit receives the image signal from the transmission unit of the controller, and the display unit displays the images received in real time. The left to right mirror module is used to mirror the image signal, which is then displayed on the display device.

Claims

1. An electronic imaging system for capturing and displaying images in real time, comprising:

a controller including a camera lens and a transmission unit, the camera lens being used to capture an image signal, the transmission unit transmitting the captured image signal in real time;

wherein, the image signal includes a total number of horizontal orientation pixels (w), a total number of vertical orientation pixels (h), an arbitrary pixel horizontal coordinate (x) and an arbitrary pixel vertical coordinate (y);

a display device including a receiving unit and a display unit, wherein the receiving unit receives the image signal transmitted from the transmission unit in real time, and the display unit displays an image corresponding to the image signal received in real time;

a left to right mirror module mirroring an image signal to be displayed on the display device, wherein the left to right mirror module comprises a first mirror module and a second mirror module,

in which the first mirror module includes a first divider, a switch and a subtractor, wherein the first divider receives the image signal captured by the camera lens and processes the image signal by performing an “

arbitrary pixel horizontal coordinate (x)/total number of horizontal orientation pixels (w)”

operation, the first divider then transfers the processed image signal to the switch, and

in a case in which the switch receives a signal indicating an execution of image left to right mirroring, the processed image signal from the first divider is sent to the subtractor for processing in which a “

1-arbitrary pixel horizontal coordinate (x)/total number of horizontal orientation pixels (w)”

operation is performed and then the image signal processed by the subtractor is sent to the display device which displays a left to right mirrored image; and

in a case in which the switch does not receive the signal indicating the execution of image left to right mirroring, the processed image signal from the first divider is directly sent to the display device which displays an image which is not left to right mirrored;

furthermore, the second mirror module includes a second divider, and the second divider receives the image signal and processes the image signal by performing an “

arbitrary pixel vertical coordinate (y)/total number of vertical orientation pixels (h)”

operation, then the second divider transfers to the display device the image signal processed by the second divider so that images received from the controller and displayed on the display device are not up-down mirrored.

2. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the image signal is transmitted from the transmission unit to the receiving unit by wireless transmission.

3. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the image signal is transmitted from the transmission unit to the receiving unit by wire transmission.

4. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the controller includes controlling units for controlling the camera lens and the left to right mirror module.

5. The electronic imaging system of claim 4, wherein the controlling unit include buttons, rotary knobs, and levers.

6. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the left to right mirror module is installed on the controller.

7. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the left to right mirror module is installed on the display device.

8. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the left to right mirror module is controlled by a hardware system for mirroring the image signal.

9. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the left to right mirror module is controlled by a software system for mirroring the image signal.

10. The electronic imaging system of claim 1, wherein the dividers in the first mirror module and the second mirror module are array dividers.