LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160295088A1
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: UMETSU, Shigehiro
• Application Number:
  US14/907,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20160295088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/05 Combinations of cameras with electronic flash apparatus; Electronic flash units
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 7/16 in accordance with both the intensity of the flash source and the distance of the flash source from the object, e.g. in accordance with the "guide number" of the flash bulb and the focusing of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/10 for generating image signals from different wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/56 provided with illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/74 by influencing the scene brightness using illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/75 by influencing optical camera components

Abstract

A light emitting device (10) includes a lighting section (120) and a control section (140). An imaging device (20) includes an imaging section (220). The lighting section (120) is able to adjust a spectrum distribution of light and the intensity thereof, and emits light to a photographic subject (S) to be imaged by the imaging section (220). The control section (140) controls the lighting section (120). The control section (140) emits light to the photographic subject (S) before the imaging section (220) performs imaging. Further, the control section (140) increases the intensity of light emitted from the lighting section (120) when the imaging section (220) images the photographic subject (S).

Claims

1. A light emitting device comprising:

a lighting section that adjusts a light spectrum distribution and a light intensity and emits light to a target to be imaged by an imaging section; and

a control section that controls the lighting section,

wherein the control section emits light to the target before the imaging section performs imaging, and

increases a light emission intensity of the lighting section when the imaging section images the target.

2. The light emitting device according to claim 1,

wherein the control section

controls a light spectrum distribution of the lighting section before the imaging section performs the imaging, and

increases the light emission intensity of the lighting section while maintaining the light spectrum distribution of the lighting section when the imaging section images the target.

3. The light emitting device according to claim 2,

wherein the lighting section includes a plurality of types of light emitting elements, each of the types of the light emitting elements having different light spectrum distributions, and

wherein the control section

individually controls electric current that flows in each of the plurality of types of light emitting elements, and

increases, when the imaging section images the target, the amount of the electric current that flows in each of the plurality of types of light emitting elements while maintaining a relative ratio of the amounts of the electric current that flows in each of the plurality of types of light emitting elements before the imaging section performs the imaging.

4. The light emitting device according to claim 3,

wherein the control section receives an imaging signal indicating that the target will be imaged from the imaging section, and increases the light emission intensity of the lighting section in response to the imaging signal.

5. The light emitting device according to claim 4, further comprising:

the imaging section.

6. An imaging device used together and a light emitting device, the light emitting device comprising:

a lighting section that adjusts a light spectrum distribution and a light intensity and emits light to a target to be imaged by an imaging section; and

a control section that controls the lighting section according to a signal received from the imaging device, and

the imaging device comprising;

an imaging section that images the target;

an imaging signal generation section that generates an imaging signal indicating that a light emission intensity of the lighting section will be increased in response to receipt of a signal indicating that the target will be imaged; and

a transmission section that transmits the imaging signal to the light emitting device.

7. The imaging device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a lighting control signal generation section that generates a lighting control signal indicating a spectrum distribution of light to be illuminated by the lighting section before the imaging section performs imaging,

wherein the transmission section transmits the lighting control signal to the light emitting device.

8. The imaging device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a touch panel type display section that displays an image generated by the imaging section,

wherein the lighting control signal generation section performs a display for input of the light spectrum distribution in the display section, and

wherein the imaging signal generation section performs a display for input of the signal indicating that the target will be imaged in the display section.

9. The imaging device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a flash section that emits light when the imaging section generates image data,

wherein the imaging signal generation section inhibits operation of the flash section when the imaging signal is transmitted.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions for use in an imaging device with a light emitting device,

the light emitting device comprising:

a lighting section that adjusts a light spectrum distribution and a light intensity and emits light to a target to be imaged by an imaging section; and

a control section that controls the lighting section according to a signal from the imaging device, and

the instructions comprising;

generating an imaging signal indicating that a light emission intensity of the lighting section will be increased based on a signal indicating that the target will be imaged; and

transmitting the imaging signal to the light emitting device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions for controlling a light emitting device including a lighting section and a control section containing, the instructions comprising:

adjusting a light emission intensity during a viewing of a target based on a first command from the control section, and

in response to an instruction to image the target, increasing the light emission intensity of the lighting section while maintaining a color temperature of the lighting section based on a second command from the control section.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instruction to image the target is received from a user input device.

13. A light emitting device comprising:

a lighting section having one or more light emitting elements configured to emit a light with respect to a target, and to provide a flash during an imaging of the target; and

a control section that adjusts a light emission intensity of the lighting section, such that the flash increases a light emission intensity of the lighting section while maintaining a color temperature of the lighting section.

14. The light emitting device of claim 13, further comprising an imaging box having an open side surface, and an interior surface, the target being positioned inside of the box through the open side surface,

wherein the lighting section is provided on the interior surface of the imaging box, and is controlled by the control section.

15. The light emitting device of claim 13, wherein the lighting section and the control section are commonly located.

16. The light emitting device of claim 13, wherein the lighting section is separate from the control section.

17. The light emitting device of claim 13, further comprising a switch that switches between a first mode in which a flash emits light when the imaging section generates data, and a second mode in which the flash generates the independently of whether the imaging section generates data.

18. The light emitting device of claim 13, wherein the lighting section includes a plurality of types of light emitting elements emitting colors different from each other, and the control section adjusts the color temperature of the lighting section.

19. The light emitting device of claim 13, wherein the control section adjusts the color temperature of the lighting section in response to a user-generated lighting control signal.

20. The light emitting device of claim 13, wherein the one or more light emitting elements comprise one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs).

21. The light emitting device of claim 13, further comprising a switch that switches functions of the lighting section, wherein one of the functions is the light with respect to the target, and another of the functions is the flash during the imaging of the target.