IMAGE CAPTURING TERMINAL, DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20120026324A1
• Filed: 07/29/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Kiyoshige, Ryuichi
• Application Number:
  US13/194,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20120026324A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/142
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/485 whereby the further system is an optical system or imaging system
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/49 whereby the further system is an inertial position system, e.g. loosely-coupled
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/51 Relative positioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

An image capturing terminal includes an image capturing unit, a sensor, a calculation unit, and an addition unit. The image capturing unit captures an object and generates an image. The sensor acquires information on a movement from a first image capturing position to a second image capturing position. The calculation unit calculates a relative position of a second image capturing position with reference to the first image capturing position based on the information on movement. The addition unit adds information that indicates the relative position to the image captured in the second image capturing position.

Claims

1. An image capturing terminal comprising:

an image capturing unit which captures an object and generates an image;

a sensor which acquires information on movement from a first image capturing position to a second image capturing position;

a calculation unit which calculates a relative position of the second image capturing position with reference to the first image capturing position based on the information acquired by the sensor; and

an addition unit which adds information that indicates the relative position to an image captured in the second image capturing position.

2. The image capturing terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a designation unit which designates a first absolute position that corresponds to the first image capturing position;

a compute unit which computes a second absolute position based on the first absolute position and the information that indicates the relative position; and

an addition unit which adds information that indicates the first absolute position to an image captured in the first image capturing position and adds information that indicates the second absolute position to an image captured in the second image capturing position.

3. A data processing terminal comprising:

a storage unit which stores a first image captured in a first image capturing position and a second image to which information that indicates a relative position with reference to the first image capturing position is added;

a designation unit which designates a first absolute position that corresponds to the first image capturing position;

a compute unit which computes a second absolute position based on the first absolute position and information that indicates the relative position; and

an addition unit which adds information that indicates the first absolute position to the first image and adds information that indicates the second absolute position to the second image.

4. The data processing terminal according to claim 3, wherein the designation unit includes a user interface for a user to designate the absolute position.

5. An image capturing method comprising:

acquiring information on a movement from a first image capturing position to a second image capturing position;

generating an image by capturing an object in the second image capturing position;

calculating a relative position of the second image capturing position with reference to the first image capturing position based on the information on the movement from the first image capturing position; and

adding information that indicates the relative position to the image captured in the second image capturing position.

6. An image capturing method comprising:

generating a first image by capturing an object in a first image capturing position;

acquiring information on a movement from the first image capturing position to a second image capturing position;

generating a second image by capturing an object in the second image capturing position;

calculating a relative position of the second image capturing position with reference to the first image capturing position based on the information on the movement from the first image capturing position;

adding information that indicates the relative position to the second image;

designating a first absolute position that corresponds to the first image capturing position;

computing a second absolute position based on the first absolute position and the information that indicates the relative position;

adding information that indicates the first absolute position to the first image; and

adding information that indicates the second absolute position to the second image.

7. A data processing method comprising:

designating a first absolute position that corresponds to a first image capturing position;

computing a second absolute position based on the first absolute position and information that indicates a relative position with reference to the first image capturing position;

adding information that indicates the first absolute position to a first image captured in the first image capturing position; and

adding information that indicates the second absolute position to a second image to which information that indicates the relative position is added.