Tilt-shift correction for camera arrays
First Claim
Patent Images
1. An imaging system for the monitoring of an environment with at least one shelving aisle comprising of:
- a set of cameras comprising of at least ten cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement down a shelving aisle, wherein the set of cameras are mounted above and in front of a shelf face;
each camera of the set of cameras comprising a camera sensor with a defined sensor plane and at least one corrective optical system, the corrective optical system comprising a tilt-shift lens optical system with a compound lens and a split-view optical system that captures different sub-regions of interest in a field of view of the camera sensor, wherein the tilt-shift lens optical system applies a perspective transformation to a focal plane of each camera;
wherein the sub-regions captured by the camera sensor comprise a first imaged region and a second imaged region;
wherein the first imaged region of the split-view optical system is optically transformed by the tilt-shift optical system; and
wherein the relative camera arrangement and the perspective transformation are cooperatively configured to image the shelf face at each camera with a focal plane aligned to the shelf face, wherein the sensor plane is not parallel to the focal plane.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An imaging system comprising of a set of cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement; and each camera of the set of cameras comprising at least one corrective optical system. The system and method may comprise of multi-camera variations for coordinated alignment in multi-camera variations and/or split-field optical systems.
186 Citations
19 Claims
-
1. An imaging system for the monitoring of an environment with at least one shelving aisle comprising of:
-
a set of cameras comprising of at least ten cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement down a shelving aisle, wherein the set of cameras are mounted above and in front of a shelf face; each camera of the set of cameras comprising a camera sensor with a defined sensor plane and at least one corrective optical system, the corrective optical system comprising a tilt-shift lens optical system with a compound lens and a split-view optical system that captures different sub-regions of interest in a field of view of the camera sensor, wherein the tilt-shift lens optical system applies a perspective transformation to a focal plane of each camera; wherein the sub-regions captured by the camera sensor comprise a first imaged region and a second imaged region; wherein the first imaged region of the split-view optical system is optically transformed by the tilt-shift optical system; and wherein the relative camera arrangement and the perspective transformation are cooperatively configured to image the shelf face at each camera with a focal plane aligned to the shelf face, wherein the sensor plane is not parallel to the focal plane. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
-
Specification