METHOD FOR ADJUSTING SHOOTING PARAMETERS OF DIGITAL CAMERA

• US 20120062754A1
• Filed: 09/10/2010
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Inventors: HUANG, SSU HUA
• Granted Patent: US 8,368,783 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/208.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/73 by influencing the exposure time

Abstract

An adjusting method for adjusting shooting parameters is applied to adjust the shooting parameters according to stability of a camera. In the method, an image is captured first, and an edge-detection procedure is performed on the image to obtain a still value corresponding to a stable state of the camera. Then, shooting parameters, such as a photosensitivity value, an exposure time, or an aperture value, of the camera are adjusted according to the still value.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting shooting parameters of a digital camera, applicable to the digital camera, comprising:

performing a brightness-detection procedure to obtain an ambient brightness value; and

performing a parameter-adjustment procedure when the ambient brightness value is smaller than a brightness threshold, wherein the parameter-adjustment procedure comprises;

capturing a first image and a second image;

computing a still value according to the first image and the second image; and

adjusting at least one shooting parameter of the digital camera according to the still value.

2. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 1, wherein the brightness-detection procedure comprises:

capturing a third image; and

computing the ambient brightness value of the third image.

3. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 2, wherein the step of computing the ambient brightness value of the third image comprises:

computing a brightness value of each pixel in the third image respectively; and

computing an average value of the brightness values of the pixels to obtain the ambient brightness value.

4. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 2, wherein the step of computing the ambient brightness value of the third image comprises:

classifying the pixels of the third image into weighted pixels and normal pixels;

computing a weighted brightness value of each weighted pixel;

computing a normal brightness value of each normal pixel; and

computing an average value of the weighted brightness values and the normal brightness values to obtain the ambient brightness value.

5. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 1, further comprising:

not adjusting the shooting parameters when the ambient brightness value is not smaller than the brightness threshold.

6. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 1, wherein the step of computing the still value according to the first image and the second image comprises:

performing an edge-detection procedure to mark edge locations of the first image and the second image respectively and compute edge values corresponding to the edge locations;

comparing the edge locations of the images respectively to obtain overlapping edges;

averaging the edge values of the overlapping edges to obtain an overlapping edge average value;

averaging the edge values of all the edge locations in the first image and the second image to obtain an image edge average value; and

dividing the overlapping edge average value by the image edge average value to obtain the still value.

7. The method for adjusting the shooting parameters of the digital camera according to claim 1, wherein the step of adjusting the at least one shooting parameter of the digital camera according to the still value comprises:

looking up a parameter adjustment lookup table according to the still value to obtain a photosensitivity value, an exposure time, and an aperture value corresponding to the still value; and

adjusting the digital camera according to the photosensitivity value, the exposure time, and the aperture value.