DISTORTION CORRECTION FOR PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE

• US 20080218607A1
• Filed: 03/06/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Inventors: ARIKAWA, Nobuo, SHOJI, Takaaki
• Application Number:
  US12/043,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20080218607A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/663 for controlling interchangeable camera parts based on electronic image sensor signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/81 for suppressing or minimising disturbance in the image signal generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/61 the noise originating only from the lens unit, e.g. flare, shading, vignetting or "cos4"

Abstract

A photographing device comprises a lens and a camera. The camera body has an imaging device and an image-processing unit that performs distortion correction on the basis of information regarding distortion quantity, as part of an image processing of an image signal obtained by the imaging device through the lens. The distortion quantity has at least one of first distortion quantity of the lens and second distortion quantity of the imaging device. The information has a coefficient of an approximation formula for the distortion correction on a two-dimensional coordinate system for the distortion correction. The two-dimensional coordinate system is set on an image obtained by the image processing of the image signal.

Claims

1. A photographing device comprising:

a lens; and

a camera body that has an imaging device and an image-processing unit that performs distortion correction on the basis of information regarding distortion quantity, as part of an image processing of an image signal obtained by said imaging device through said lens;

said distortion quantity having at least one of first distortion quantity of said lens and second distortion quantity of said imaging device, said information having a coefficient of an approximation formula for said distortion correction on a two-dimensional coordinate system for said distortion correction, said two-dimensional coordinate system being set on an image obtained by said image processing of said image signal.

2. The photographing device according to claim 1, wherein said approximation formula is a three-dimensional formula that is used for calculating said distortion quantity for a point on said two-dimensional coordinate system.

3. The photographing device according to claim 1, wherein said approximation formula is a two-dimensional formula that has a plurality of first approximation formulas along said plurality of first lines for specifying said distortion quantity, said first lines radiating from a distortion center, said distortion center being the position where said distortion quantity shows the minimum value on said two-dimensional coordinate system for said distortion correction, each of said first approximation formulas giving a first relationship between said distortion quantity of a target point on each of said first lines and the position of said target point.

4. The photographing device according to claim 1, wherein said approximation formula is a two-dimensional formula that has a plurality of second approximation formulas along said plurality of second lines for specifying said distortion quantity, said second lines being parallel to each other, each of said second approximation formulas giving a second relationship between said distortion quantity of a target point on each of said second lines and the position of said target point.

5. The photographing device according to claim 1, wherein said distortion quantity is calculated on the basis of a relational formula, a central deviation value, and a surface-inclination value;

said relational formula is the relational formula between an architectonics-distortion quantity due to the optical characteristics determined by the design of said lens and the distance between a target point and an architectonics-distortion center that is the position where said architectonics-distortion quantity shows the minimum value;

said central deviation value is the deviation between an intersection of an optical axis of said lens with an imaging surface of said imaging device, and the center of said imaging surface; and

said surface-inclination value is the inclination angle of a surface perpendicular to said optical axis of said lens, in the direction of said imaging surface of said imaging device.

6. A photographing device comprising:

a lens; and

a camera body that has an imaging device and an image-processing unit that performs distortion correction on the basis of information regarding distortion quantity, as part of an image processing of an image signal obtained by said imaging device through said lens;

said distortion quantity having at least one of first distortion quantity of said lens and second distortion quantity of said imaging device, said information having said distortion quantities of a plurality of measurement points on a two-dimensional coordinate system for said distortion correction, said two-dimensional coordinate system being set on an image obtained by said image processing of said image signal.