AUTOMATED COLLECTIVE CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR MOTION CAPTURE
First Claim
1. A motion-capture system, comprising:
- a host computing system; and
a plurality of motion-capture cameras operatively coupled with the host computing system, where each of the motion-capture cameras is disposed in a different location and orientation relative to a motion-capture space and includes a marker-tracking optical filter to provide a marker-tracking mode and thereby relatively enhance light from markers on a moving body in the motion-capture space, and where one or more of the motion-capture cameras is remotely controllable to selectively interchange the marker-tracking optical filter with a scene-view optical component, so as to selectively transition the motion-capture camera between the marker-tracking mode and a scene mode, in which light from the markers is less enhanced than in the marker-tracking mode.
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Abstract
A motion-capture system is provided. The motion-capture system includes a host computing system and a plurality of motion-capture cameras that are operatively coupled with the host computing system. Each of the motion-capture cameras is disposed in a different location and orientation relative to a motion-capture space and includes a marker-tracking optical filter to provide a marker-tracking mode and thereby relatively enhance light from markers on a moving body in the motion-capture space. One or more of the motion-capture cameras is remotely controllable to selectively interchange the marker-tracking optical filter with a scene-view optical component, so as to selectively transition the motion-capture camera between the marker-tracking mode and a scene mode, in which light from the markers is less enhanced than in the marker-tracking mode.
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31 Claims
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1. A motion-capture system, comprising:
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a host computing system; and a plurality of motion-capture cameras operatively coupled with the host computing system, where each of the motion-capture cameras is disposed in a different location and orientation relative to a motion-capture space and includes a marker-tracking optical filter to provide a marker-tracking mode and thereby relatively enhance light from markers on a moving body in the motion-capture space, and where one or more of the motion-capture cameras is remotely controllable to selectively interchange the marker-tracking optical filter with a scene-view optical component, so as to selectively transition the motion-capture camera between the marker-tracking mode and a scene mode, in which light from the markers is less enhanced than in the marker-tracking mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A motion-capture camera apparatus comprising:
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an image sensor configured to receive incident light from a motion-capture space and thereby generate an image of the motion-capture space; a marker-tracking optical filter; a scene-view optical component; a switching mechanism actuatable to positionally interchange the marker-tracking optical filter and the scene-view optical component relative to the image sensor; and a controller, operable in a marker-tracking mode, to control the switching mechanism so that the marker-tracking optical filter is positioned relative to the image sensor to relatively enhance light received at the image sensor from a plurality of markers on a moving body in the motion-capture space, and operable in a scene mode, to control the switching mechanism to positionally interchange the marker-tracking optical filter and the scene-view optical component so that the scene-view optical component is positioned relative to the image sensor to enhance light received at the image sensor from the plurality of markers to a lesser extent than in the marker-tracking mode. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for remotely controlling a plurality of motion-capture cameras each disposed in a different location and orientation in a motion-capture space, each of the plurality of motion-capture cameras being operable in a marker-tracking mode where each of the plurality of motion-capture cameras relatively enhances light from a plurality of markers on a moving body in the motion-capture space via use of a marker-tracking optical filter, and where one or more motion-capture cameras of the plurality of motion-capture cameras is remotely controllable to selectively positionally interchange the marker-tracking optical filter with a scene-view optical component, so as to selectively transition the motion-capture camera between the marker-tracking mode and a scene mode, where the one or more motion-capture cameras enhances light from the plurality of markers to a lesser extent than in the marker-tracking mode, the method comprising:
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setting the plurality of motion-capture cameras to the marker-tracking mode; receiving substantially simultaneously, from each of the plurality of motion-capture cameras, position data for a reference object as the reference object moves in the motion-capture space, the position data forming a calibration data set; substantially simultaneously calibrating the plurality of motion-capture cameras based on a solution to the calibration data set calculated according to a minimization technique; setting one or more, but less than all, of the motion-capture cameras to the scene mode; creating a marker-tracking view based on marker-tracking data received from motion-capture cameras that are set to the marker-tracking mode, the marker-tracking view including a visual representation of the plurality of markers that are relatively enhanced by the marker-tracking optical filter; creating a scene view based on scene data received from the one or more motion-capture cameras that are set to the scene mode, the scene view including the moving body; and creating a composite view where at least a portion of the marker-tracking view is overlaid on at least a portion of the scene view based on the solution to the calibration data set to thereby align the visual representation of the plurality of markers with the moving body. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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