Method and arrangement for recording regions of interest of moving objects
First Claim
1. A method for recording regions of interest in moving or changing objects, preferably of persons, comprising the steps of:
- tracking a region of interest of an object with an image that is read out of an image sensor for the output image so as to fill the image area; and
further comprising the steps of;
operating the image sensor in such a way that it can be switched sequentially to a full-image mode and a partial-image mode, wherein a full image is recorded by a wide-angle objective as a stationary overview recording in the full-image mode and the region of interest of the object is recorded in the partial-image mode;
analyzing the full image acquired in the full-image mode by an image evaluating unit with regard to the presence and position of given object features, such as the face of a person, and determining a circumscribing rectangle around the region of interest of the object defined by the object features that are found from the position of the object features that are found;
using the currently determined circumscribing rectangle as a boundary of a programmable readout window of the image sensor; and
reading out, in partial-image mode, a sequence of partial images in which the region of interest of the object is contained so as to fill the image area at a high image rate based on the currently adjusted readout window of the image sensor.
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for recording regions of interest in moving objects, preferably of persons. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for recording high-resolution electronic images of the faces of persons which achieves high-quality portraits quickly and without manual intervention on the part of the operator with optimal settings of the camera, is met according to the invention in that the image sensor is switchable to a full-image mode and a partial-image mode. An overview recording (such as full image 51) is recorded by a wide-angle objective in the full-image mode and the region of interest (such as face 11) of a person object is recorded in the partial-image mode. The full image is analyzed by an image evaluating unit with regard to the presence and position of object features of a person, a circumscribing rectangle is determined therefrom, and the determined circumscribing rectangle is used as a boundary of a programmable readout window of the image sensor in order to read out a sequence of partial images in the partial-image mode which contain the face of the person so as to fill the image area.
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1. A method for recording regions of interest in moving or changing objects, preferably of persons, comprising the steps of:
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tracking a region of interest of an object with an image that is read out of an image sensor for the output image so as to fill the image area; and
further comprising the steps of;
operating the image sensor in such a way that it can be switched sequentially to a full-image mode and a partial-image mode, wherein a full image is recorded by a wide-angle objective as a stationary overview recording in the full-image mode and the region of interest of the object is recorded in the partial-image mode;
analyzing the full image acquired in the full-image mode by an image evaluating unit with regard to the presence and position of given object features, such as the face of a person, and determining a circumscribing rectangle around the region of interest of the object defined by the object features that are found from the position of the object features that are found;
using the currently determined circumscribing rectangle as a boundary of a programmable readout window of the image sensor; and
reading out, in partial-image mode, a sequence of partial images in which the region of interest of the object is contained so as to fill the image area at a high image rate based on the currently adjusted readout window of the image sensor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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9. A method for recording regions of interests of moving or changing objects, preferably of persons, comprising the steps of:
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tracking a region of interest of an object so as to fill the image area for the output format with an image that is read out from an image sensor, and further comprising the steps of;
operating the image sensor so as to be switchable sequentially to a full-image mode and a partial-image mode, wherein a full image is made as a stationary overview recording in the full-image mode and the region of interest of the object is recorded in the partial-image recording mode;
analyzing the full image acquired in the full-image recording mode by an image evaluating unit for the presence and position of given defined object features, such as faces of persons, and circumscribing rectangles around the regions of interest of all found objects which are defined by the given object features are determined from the position of the given found object features;
using the currently determined circumscribing rectangles as boundaries of different programmable readout windows of the image sensor for all objects, such as a plurality of persons, that were acquired with the image sensor in full-image mode; and
switching the image sensor is switched to a repeating multiple partial-image recording mode with the determined circumscribing rectangles in the partial-image recording mode based on the currently adjusted plurality of readout windows, and image sequences of partial images having regions of interest of the objects that are read out successively so as to fill the image area are outputted. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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