Movie camera and photographing method for obtaining three-dimenstional image

• US 20030107644A1
• Filed: 11/07/2002
• Published: 06/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Boo-Jin Choi
• Original Assignee: Boo-Jin Choi
• Inventors: Choi, Boo-Jin
• Application Number:
  US10/275,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20030107644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/49
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/10 having single camera with stereoscopic-base-defining system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/211 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/296 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof

Abstract

The present invention relates to a movie camera and a method for photographing an object in three-dimensional which makes it possible to photograph for 3-D while taking picture so that image on display can be shown in three-dimensional, but with no help of special glasses or complex optical instruments. An movie camera for stereoscopically taking a photograph of an object in three dimensional comprises a camera body provided with an image record units for obtaining the photograph; a lens assemble installed into the camera body, capable of being attached to and separated from the camera body, wherein the lens assemble includes a plurality of lens for imaging an object on the image record unit of the camera body, a first input means for providing a left eye image of the object to the image record unit; and a second input means for providing a fight eye image of the object to the image record unit.

Claims

1. An apparatus for taking a photograph in three-dimensional, comprising:

a camera body provided with an image record unit for obtaining the photograph;

a lens assemble installed into the camera body, capable of being attached to and separated from the camera body, wherein the lens assemble includes a plurality of lens for imaging an object on the image record unit of the camera body;

a first input means for providing a left eye image of the object to the image record unit; and

a second input means for providing a right eye image of the object to the image record unit.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a strobe for alternately switching the first and the second input means.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first input means includes:

a first guide means for guiding the image from the object; and

a first reflecting means for transmitting the image to the image record unit through the lens assemble.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first reflecting means further includes a pair of prisms.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the second input means includes:

a second guide means for guiding the image from the object; and

a second reflecting means for transmitting the image to the image record unit through the lens assemble.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second reflecting means further includes a pair of prisms.

7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the strobe is in a form of a disk with a plurality of opened sectors, each of which is formed at a predetermined interval thereon.

8. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the strobe includes a plurality of opened sectors formed at the same interval and is formed with two disks engaged in to each other and move together.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the strobe rotates at a speed (rotation/sec) of more than 50/n, n being the number of opened sectors.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first/second eye image input device includes:

a first input means for providing a left eye image of the object to the image record unit;

a second input means for providing a right eye image of the object to the image record unit; and

a strobe for alternately switching the two branches according to a signal from an electronic circuit.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the strobe flashes on and off more than 50 times a second at each input unit.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image recorded on the image record unit is provided as a left eye image or a right eye image separately.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image recorded on the image record unit is provided in more than pair of left and right eye image to one frame.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of alternately displaying the left eye images and right eye images more than 50 times per second.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the left and the right eye images recorded in the image record unit are separated into left eye images and right eye images and recorded alternately and consecutively.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the left and the right eye images recorded in the image record unit of the camera body are recorded more than a pair of left and the right eye images.

19. The method of claim 8, wherein 100 frames of image are shown every second.

14. A method for photographing an object in three-dimensional, comprising the steps of:

a) taking a left image and a right eye image alternately;

b) providing the left and the right eye images to a lens assemble;

c) recording the left and the right eye image to an image record unit with overlapping each other.

18. A method for photographing an object in three-dimensional for animation, comprising the steps of:

a) recording left eye images and right eye images of each scene to each frame repeatedly;

b) recording the pictures played at a high speed twice as fast as a normal speed, when the recorded image is played; and

c) re-photographing the played images with another camera.

20. An adapter for use with a three dimensional camera, comprising:

a lens assemble installed into the three dimensional camera, capable of being attached to and separated from the three dimensional camera, wherein the lens assemble includes a plurality of lens for imaging an object on an image record unit which is incorporated into the three dimensional camera;

a first input means for providing a left eye view of the object to the image record unit; and

a second input means for providing a right eye view of the object to the image record unit.