PHOTO COMPOSITION AND POSITION GUIDANCE IN A CAMERA OR AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM

• US 20150229838A1
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Hakim, Kinan, Wotzlaw, Ronald Frank
• Granted Patent: US 9,667,860 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/634 Warning indications
• 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

Abstract

A method, computer readable medium and an apparatus are presented for providing composition and position guidance for a camera. One method includes detecting an image received on a capturing device. The image is analyzed to identify objects and determine attributes of the objects. Suggestions are provided to adjust at least one of position or setting of the capturing device in accordance to rules, based on the analysis of the image. Adjustment of the capturing device based on the suggestions provided, are detected and used to receive an adjusted image. The adjusted image is captured by the capturing device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting an image received on a capturing device;

analyzing the image to identify objects and determine attributes of the objects;

providing suggestions to adjust at least one of position or setting of the capturing device in accordance to rules, based on the analysis of the image;

detecting adjustment of the capturing device based on the suggestions provided, the adjustment used in receiving an adjusted image; and

capturing the adjusted image by the capturing device,

wherein the method operations are performed by a processor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the image received on a capturing device is detected by a sensor of the capturing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the capturing device is one of a mobile phone, camera, tablet personal computer, or eye glasses equipped with a camera.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the received image is rendered on a screen of the capturing device, the received image being stored in cache buffer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the objects include at least one of animate or inanimate objects including background, people, buildings, birds, animals, scenes or combinations thereof.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the rules identify commands for adjusting the capturing device during capturing of the image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the commands include one of move up, move down, move right, move left, zoom in, zoom out, adjust angle, use flash light, adjust position of the capturing device or any combinations thereof.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the capturing causes the image to be saved in memory of the capturing device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein analyze further includes computing a composition score based on the attributes of the objects captured in the image, the composition score defines quality of the image, the computed composition score rendered on a screen of the capturing device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein detect adjustment further includes dynamically adjusting the composition score to account for the adjustment in the image, the adjusted composition score rendered on a screen of the capturing device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the suggestions are provided as a text, an image, through audio, or any combinations thereof.

12. A computer program embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, when executed by one or more processors, for providing a method, the computer program comprising:

program instructions for detecting an image received on a capturing device;

program instructions for analyzing the image to identify objects and determine attributes of the objects;

program instructions for providing suggestions to adjust at least one of position or setting of the capturing device in accordance to rules, based on the analysis of the image;

program instructions for detecting adjustment of the capturing device based on the suggestions provided, the adjustment used in receiving an adjusted image; and

program instructions for capturing the adjusted image by the capturing device.

13. A method, comprising:

detecting an image received on a capturing device;

analyzing the image to identify objects and determine attributes of the objects;

providing suggestions to adjust at least one of position or setting of the capturing device in accordance to rules, based on the analysis of the image; and

saving the image after the adjustments are made, wherein the method operations are performed by a processor.

14. A device, comprising:

a display screen;

an analyzer module to receive an image to cache of the device; and

a processor for detecting objects in the image, the analyzer module configured to identify attributes of the detected objects, the processor configured to generate at least one suggestion that is presented on the display screen, the suggestion is for making an adjustment to one of a position of the device or a setting of the device, and generation of the suggestion is based on analysis of one or more rules that are processed for the identified attributes of the detected objects, the processor generating instructions to capture and save the image to memory once the adjustment is detected.