Method of correcting perspective deformation of a lens system

• US 20090278975A1
• Filed: 06/06/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Detlef Grosspietsch
• Original Assignee: Detlef Grosspietsch
• Inventors: GROSSPIETSCH, Detlef
• Application Number:
  US12/134,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20090278975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/335
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 9/00 Measuring inclination, e.g. by clinometers, by levels
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/18 Signals indicating condition of a camera member or suitability of light indicating depth of field G03B13/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for the correction of perspective deformation in a lens system (1) in which image data, which describe an image projected through the lens system, are corrected with correction values and the image data corrected in this way are output for the display of a corrected image. A correction of the perspective deformation is obtained with the present invention in a simple manner in that the angular position of the lens system (1) on producing the image data acquires reproducing angular position data, a record of angular position correction data, which match the angular position data, are read out of a data base, in which a large number of data records have been saved for different angular positions of the lens system (1), and the image data are corrected with the determined angular position correction data.

Claims

1. Method for the correction of perspective deformation in a lens system (1) in which image data, which describe an image (AB) projected through the lens system (1), are corrected with correction data and the image data (KB) corrected in this way are output for the display of a corrected image,

characterised in that,

the angular position of the lens system (1) on producing the image data acquires reproducing angular position data, a record of angular position correction data, which match the angular position data, are read out of a data base (IDB), in which a large number of data records have been saved for different angular positions of the lens system (1), and the image data are corrected with the determined angular position correction data.

2. Method according to claim 1, characterised in that the record of matching angular position correction data is selected based on angular position data which are representative of the rotation of the lens system (1) about its optical axis (X) and representative of the rotation of the lens system (1) about an axis (Y) extending at right angles to the optical axis (X) and extending horizontally with vertical alignment of the lens system (1).

3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the record of matching angular position correction data is selected based on angular position data which are representative of the rotation of the lens system (1) about a vertical axis (Z).

4. Method according to claim 3, characterised in that the angular position data are obtained in that the lens system (1) is initially arranged with its optical axis (X) at right angles to a planar surface of an object (G) to be imaged and the rotation about the vertical axis occurring during the transfer of the lens system (1) from this calibration position into the position taken up by the lens system (1) during the generation of the image data is determined by at least one sensor fitted to the lens system (1).

5. Method according to claim 4, characterised in that the rotation of the lens system (1) about the vertical axis (Z) is determined with at least one acceleration sensor.

6. Method according to one of the aforementioned claims, characterised in that the angular position correction data are read out of a data base (DB) in which conceivable angular positions of the lens system (1) about the three axes (X, Y, Z) of a Cartesian co-ordinate system are in each case saved at intervals.

7. Method according to one of the aforementioned claims, characterised in that the angular position of the lens system (1) for the generation of the image data together with the image data are written into a common file (D1/2) and that the file (D1/2) is sent to a server (P) which manages the angular position correction where it is corrected and returned to the sender for the display of a corrected image (KB).

8. Method according to claim 7, characterised in that after conclusion of the transfer of the angular position data of the lens system (1) and of EXIF data assigned by the optical system to the server, the corresponding image data corrections are transferred from the server to the sender.

9. Method according to one of the aforementioned claims, characterised in that the user can individually access the angular position correction data and apply each of the three angular positions of the X, Y and Z axes manually to the image data according to design viewpoints and process in the processor (P) the version relevant to the user via previews with slight resolution. Since the perspective correction and the designing influence on the perspective is defined via the imaging plane (AB), the term of a “

virtual standard”

is introduced here.