System and method of visual orientation
First Claim
1. A visual orientation system comprising,a storage device which stores a reference image captured by a vision sensing device;
- a camera which captures a sequence of second images;
a transformation unit which generates an image transformation from one or more pixels of said reference image and one or more pixels of said second images, said image transformation transforming said second images into relevant pixels of said reference image; and
display means which displays said reference image, said second image currently viewed by said camera, and a frame indicating location of said currently viewed second image within said reference image.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing images of a searching area and for assisting the visual orientation of a user observing the images of the area is provided. The system includes a reference memory, a camera, a transformation unit and a display unit. The reference memory stores a wide field of view (FOV) reference image of the searching area. The camera produces zoomed images of selected portions of the searching area, the zoomed images of the selected portions having an FOV not greater than the wide FOV of the reference image. Transformation means generate transformations between each of the zoomed images and the reference image, and the display means displays both the wide FOV reference image and one of the zoomed images currently viewed by the camera and, on the reference image, displays a frame indicating where, within the searching area, the camera is currently viewing the selected portion of the searching area.
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28 Claims
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1. A visual orientation system comprising,
a storage device which stores a reference image captured by a vision sensing device; -
a camera which captures a sequence of second images;
a transformation unit which generates an image transformation from one or more pixels of said reference image and one or more pixels of said second images, said image transformation transforming said second images into relevant pixels of said reference image; and
display means which displays said reference image, said second image currently viewed by said camera, and a frame indicating location of said currently viewed second image within said reference image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A visual orientation system, said system comprises,
a first image; -
a sequence of second images;
a transformation unit which generates an image transformation from at least a portion of said second images and at least a portion of said first image, said image transformation transforming said second images into relevant pixels of said reference image; and
a combination image of said first image and a frame indicating a location of a current second image within said first image.
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12. A system according to 11 wherein said first image has a first field of view and each of said second images has a second field of view, wherein said second field of view is smaller than said first field of view.
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13. A method for visual orientation, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing a reference image;
capturing a sequence of second images;
when said second images overlap with at least a portion of said reference image, generating an image transformation from one or more pixels from said second images and one or more pixels of said reference image, said image transformation transforming said second images into relevant pixels of the reference image; and
continuously displaying said reference image, a currently captured second image, and a frame indicating location of said currently viewed second image within said reference image. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A visual orientation system comprising:
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a storage device which stores a reference image captured by a vision sensing device;
a camera which captures a sequence of second images;
a transformation unit which generates an image transformation from one or more pixels of said reference image and one or more pixels of said second images, said image transformation effecting a zoom in from said second image to a portion of said reference image; and
display means which displays said reference image, said second image currently viewed by said camera and a frame indicating location of said currently viewed second image within said reference image. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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