DYNAMICAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED DYNAMICAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD

• US 20150326776A1
• Filed: 05/07/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vivotek, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vivotek, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Tzu-Hsiang, Liu, Yui-Juin, Chang, Yung-Shen
• Application Number:
  US14/705,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20150326776A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/675 comprising setting of focusing regions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

A dynamical focus adjustment method is applied to a dynamical focus adjustment system. The dynamical focus adjustment method includes setting a focus area within a display window on a screen, making a first video by a first focus value when an object passes the focus area, displaying the first video on a play window of the screen, and determining whether a focus adjusting function is actuated according to an image of the first video on the play window.

Claims

1. A dynamical focus adjustment method, comprising:

setting a focus area within a display window on a screen;

making a first video by a first focus value while an object passes the focus area;

displaying the first video on a play window of the screen; and

determining whether a focus adjusting function is actuated according to an image of the first video displayed on the play window.

2. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, wherein the display window and the play window are located on different positions of the screen.

3. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, wherein the display window is located on a predetermined position of the screen, and the play window is located on the predetermined position to hide the display window while the first video is displayed on the play window.

4. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, wherein a step of making the first video comprises:

making the first video at an instant time point that the object just enters the focus area.

5. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, wherein a step of making the first video comprises:

setting a time period;

calculating a specific time point different from the instant time point that the object enters the focus area, wherein the time period is an interval between the specific time point and the instant time point; and

making the first video at the specific time point.

6. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the image of the first video by an image recognition function.

7. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 6, wherein the image of the first video is displayed on the screen while a parameter of the image of the first video is greater than a threshold.

8. The dynamical focus adjustment method of claim 1, further comprising:

transforming the first focus value into a second focus value by the focus adjusting function; and

making a second video by the second focus value.

9. A dynamical focus adjustment system, comprising:

a camera, having a focus adjusting module;

a monitor for providing a screen; and

a controller electrically connected to the camera and the monitor, the controller being adapted to drive the monitor to display information acquired by the camera on a display window of the screen, to set a focus area within the display window, to drive the camera to make a first video by a first focus value while an object passes the focus area and simultaneously drive the monitor to display the first video on a play window of the screen, and then to determine whether a focus adjusting function of the focus adjusting module is actuated according to an image of the first video on the play window.

10. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the display window and the play window are located on different positions of the screen.

11. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the display window is located on a predetermined position of the screen, and the play window is located on the predetermined position to hide the display window while the first video is displayed on the play window.

12. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the controller makes the first video at an instant time point that the object just enters the focus area.

13. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the controller sets a time period, calculates a specific time point different from the instant time point that the time period being an interval between the instant time point and the specific time point, and makes the first video at the specific time point.

14. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the controller analyzes the image of the first video, and displays the image of the first video on the screen while a parameter of the image of the first video is greater than a threshold.

15. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the controller analyzes the image of the first video by an image recognition function.

16. The dynamical focus adjustment system of claim 9, wherein the control further transforms the first focus value into a second focus value by the focus adjusting function and makes a second video by the second focus value.