Computer vision system with a graphic user interface and remote camera control
DCFirst Claim
1. A graphical user interface for a computer vision system, the computer vision system having a camera with an optical axis, a computer, position and attitude determining means, and a display having a display field normally aligned to the optical axis, said graphical user interface being comprised of:
- a field region; and
a periphery,said field region being an area fractional portion of the display field enclosed by said periphery operable for displaying image and graphical information while a scene is being addressed by said computer vision system.
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Abstract
Computer vision systems provide a user a view of a scene whereby an image of the scene may have been augmented with information generated by a computer. Computer vision systems of the present invention include graphical user interfaces which have been discovered to operably interact with geometric constructs of a user environment, objects within a scene, perspective of the scene, image features of a signal which represents the scene, among others. These graphical user interfaces of the invention do not behave as those known because operation of these interfaces depends on properties and features particular to computer vision systems which have position and attitude determining means.
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40 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface for a computer vision system, the computer vision system having a camera with an optical axis, a computer, position and attitude determining means, and a display having a display field normally aligned to the optical axis, said graphical user interface being comprised of:
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a field region; and a periphery, said field region being an area fractional portion of the display field enclosed by said periphery operable for displaying image and graphical information while a scene is being addressed by said computer vision system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An apparatus including the combination of a computer vision system with a graphical user interface comprised of:
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a camera; a display; an attitude determining means; a position determining means; a computer; and a graphical user interface, said camera having an optical axis and an image plane whereby an image of a scene being addressed by the computer vision system is formed in the image plane when the optical axis is pointed into the direction of the scene; said display having a planar image field with a normal direction associated therewith, the normal direction being aligned with the optical axis of said camera, or alternatively aligned with an angular offset; said attitude determining means having a reference direction colinear with the optical axis of said camera; said position determining means having a reference point co-located with the intersection of the planar image field and the reference direction of the attitude determining means; said computer being electronically coupled to said camera, said display, said attitude determining means, and said position determining means; said graphical user interface having a field region and a periphery bounding the field region, the field region being a fractional portion of the planar image field of the display. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. An apparatus for generating graphical user interfaces comprising:
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an attitude determining means; a position determining means; a computer; a graphics generator; and a display, said computer being electronically coupled to said display, graphics generator, and attitude and position determining means, said graphics generator being responsive to said attitude and position determining means.
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23. A method of displaying a graphical user interface in a computer vision system comprising the steps:
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addressing a scene with a computer vision system; forming an image of the scene; generating a graphical user interface; combining the image of the scene with the graphical user interface to form a composite image; and displaying the composite image in a display field. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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