APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE CAPTURE SETTINGS

• US 20140204245A1
• Filed: 01/22/2014
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OrCam Technologies Ltd
• Original Assignee: OrCam Technologies Ltd
• Inventors: Wexler, Yonatan, Shashua, Amnon
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,127 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera

Abstract

A device and method are provided for adjusting image capture settings. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus may include at least one wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user. The wearable apparatus may also include at least one processing device configured to identify, in at least one representation of at least one of the plurality of images, an existence of at least one visual trigger in the environment of the user, determine, based on a type of the at least one visual trigger, a value for at least one capturing parameter, cause the image sensor to capture at least one subsequent image according to at least the value of the at least one capturing parameter, determine a data size for storing at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image, and store, in a memory, the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image.

Claims

1. A wearable apparatus for capturing and processing images, the wearable apparatus comprising:

at least one wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user; and

at least one processing device configured to;

identify, in at least one representation of at least one of the plurality of images, an existence of at least one visual trigger in the environment of the user;

determine, based on a type of the at least one visual trigger, a value for at least one capturing parameter;

cause the image sensor to capture at least one subsequent image according to at least the value of the at least one capturing parameter;

determine a data size for storing at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image; and

store, in a memory, the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image.

2. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one capturing parameter includes at least one of the following:

an image resolution, a compression ratio, a scaling parameter and a cropping parameter.

3. The wearable apparatus of claim 2, wherein the at least one capturing parameter further includes at least one of the following:

frame rate, a focus point, an exposure time, an aperture size, and a light sensitivity.

4. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine the value for the at least one capturing parameter based on available storage space in the memory.

5. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one visual trigger includes at least one of the following:

an individual-type trigger, an object-type trigger, an activity-type trigger, a location-type trigger, a logo-type trigger, a tex type trigger, a document-type trigger, and a lip-moving type trigger.

6. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to select a capturing mode from a plurality of capturing modes based on a type of the at least one visual trigger.

7. The wearable apparatus of claim 6, wherein the plurality of capturing modes include one or more of:

a stop motion capturing mode, a video capturing mode, an audio capturing mode, a 3D capturing mode, and an optical character recognition (OCR) mode.

8. The wearable apparatus of claim 6, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to select the capturing mode based on available storage space in the memory.

9. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to identify the at least one visual trigger by comparing a representation of the at least one visual trigger with a plurality of stored representations of visual triggers to find a match.

10. The wearable apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine a value of at least one other capturing parameter based on the identity of the at least one visual trigger.

11. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine a value of at least one other capturing parameter based on at least one of:

a global position system (GPS) trigger, a time-of-day trigger, and an audible trigger.

12. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one wearable image sensor includes a first image sensor for capturing images at a first resolution and a second image sensor for capturing images at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution.

13. A wearable apparatus for capturing and processing images from an environment of a user, the wearable apparatus comprising:

at least one image sensor for capturing a first plurality of images in a first resolution and capturing a second plurality of images in a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution; and

at least one processing device configured to;

identify, in at least one representation of at least one of the first plurality of images, an existence of at least one visual trigger in the environment of the user;

determine, based on a type of the at least one visual trigger, to capture at least one subsequent image in the second resolution; and

store, in a memory, at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image.

14. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine, based on available storage space in the memory, to capture at least one other subsequent image in the first resolution.

15. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine a data size for storing the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image based on the type of the at least one visual trigger.

16. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the wearable apparatus is powered by a mobile power source, and the at least one processing device is further configured to determine a data size for storing the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image based on a power level of the mobile power source.

17. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to:

instruct the at least one image sensor to capture a plurality of subsequent images in the second resolution; and

select a subset of representations of the plurality of subsequent images for storage in the memory.

18. The wearable apparatus of claim 17, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to select the subset of the representations of the plurality of subsequent images based on a predefined rule.

19. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to extract information from the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image, and after extracting the information, to delete the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image from the memory.

20. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one visual trigger includes at least one of the following:

an individual-type trigger, an object-type trigger, an activity-type trigger, a location-type trigger, a logo-type trigger, a text-type trigger, a document-type trigger, and a lip-moving type trigger.

21. The wearable apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to identify the at least one visual trigger by comparing a representation of the at least one visual trigger with a plurality of stored representations of visual triggers to find a match.

22. The wearable apparatus of claim 21, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine, based on the identity of the at least one visual trigger, to capture the at least one subsequent image in the second resolution.

23. A wearable apparatus for capturing and processing images, the wearable apparatus comprising:

at least one wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user; and

at least one processing device configured to;

identify, in at least one representation of at least one of the plurality of images, an existence of at least one visual trigger in the environment of the user;

determine, based on a type of the at least one visual trigger and based on available storage space in a memory, a value for at least one capturing parameter;

cause the image sensor to capture at least one subsequent image according to at least the value of the at least one capturing parameter; and

store, in the memory, at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image.

24. The wearable apparatus of claim 23, wherein the memory is included within the wearable apparatus.

25. The wearable apparatus of claim 23, wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to identify the at least one visual trigger by comparing a representation of the at least one visual trigger with a plurality of stored representations of visual triggers to find a match.

26. A nontransitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to perform operations comprising:

capturing a plurality of images of an environment of a user;

identifying, in at least one representation of at least one of the plurality of images, an existence of at least one visual trigger in the environment of the user;

determining, based on a type of the at least one visual trigger, a value for at least one capturing parameter;

capturing at least one subsequent image according to at least the value of the at least one capturing parameter;

determining a data size for storing at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image; and

storing, in a memory of a wearable apparatus that includes the at least one processing device, the at least one representation of the at least one subsequent image.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein determining the value for at least one capturing parameter is further based on available storage space in the memory.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein the at least one capturing parameter includes at least one of the following:

an image resolution, a compression ratio, a scaling parameter and a cropping parameter.