Image sensing apparatus having camera-shake detection function

• US 5,184,216 A
• Filed: 03/29/1991
• Issued: 02/02/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): Britton, Howard W.
• Application Number:
  US07/677,188
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 358/105, 358/222
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/223 using block-matching
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6811 based on the image signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6842 by controlling the scanning position, e.g. windowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/145 Movement estimation for video coding H04N19/51

Abstract

A video camera having camera-shake detection function divides an image sensed picture into a plurality of blocks and binary codes the luminance signal in each pixel in each block. The presence of a binary coded data of "1" is detected for each horizontal line and vertical line in each block, whereby the presence of at least one causes data "1" to be stored in the bit position in the memory corresponding to the line. Accordingly, data representing the distribution of an object in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction are obtained for each block. By calculating the data correlation between consecutive frames, a motion vector of the object for each block is specified, whereby a motion vector representing the entire picture is selected by subjecting the motion vectors of all blocks is selected by subjecting the motion vectors of all blocks to majority decision logic process. In accordance with this selected motion vector, the movement of the object caused by the camera-shake is corrected appropriately.

Claims

1. An image sensing apparatus having camera-shake detection function comprising:

image sensing means for receiving light from an object and converting the same into a video signal,

binary coding means for dividing an image sensed picture into a plurality of blocks and binary coding said video signal at a plurality of sampling points in each block by comparing the same with a first reference value determined for each block,

distribution data calculating means for calculating data representing the distribution position of the object in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction in each block according to said binary coded data for each block,

motion vector specifying means for specifying a motion vector of the object for each block according to said data representing the distribution position of the object, and

motion vector selecting means for selecting a motion vector of the object of an entire image sensed picture by logic process based on said specified motion vectors for respective blocks.

2. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said distribution data calculating means comprises

means detecting the presence of a specified binary coded data in each horizontal line of each block for generating a first data indicating the distribution position of the object in the vertical direction, and

means detecting the presence of a specific binary coded data in each vertical line of each block for generating a second data indicating the distribution position of the object in the horizontal direction.

3. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said distribution data calculating means comprises means for calculating data indicating the center point position of the object in each block according to said first and second data,

said motion vector specifying means comprises means to detect the moving distance of the center point of said object between the preceding frame and the current frame in each of said block for specifying a motion vector for each block according to the result.

4. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said distribution data calculating means comprises

means for generating a first normalized data by integrating said binary coded data in each horizontal line of each block and comparing the result with a second reference value determined for each block, and

means for generating a second normalized data by integrating said binary coded data in each vertical line of each block and comparing the result with a third reference value determined for each block.

5. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said motion vector specifying means comprises means to detect a change in said first and second normalized data between the preceding frame and the current frame for specifying a motion vector for each block according to the result.

6. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said distribution data calculating means comprises means for calculating data indicating the center point position of the object for each block according to said first and second normalized data,

said motion vector specifying means comprises means to detect the moving distance of the center point of the object between the preceding frame and the current frame for each of said block for specifying a motion vector for each block according to the result.