Method of positioning by using image

• US 7,176,974 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2003
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shu-Fen Chen
• Original Assignee: Shu-Fen Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Shu-Fen
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava; Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hannett; James M.
• Application Number:
  US10/347,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20040140952A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 348/135, 348169-175, 348/335, 345165-166, 356/4.01, 356/4.03, 356/138, 356/139.01, 356/140, 356/140.2, 356/140.5, 356/141.4, 356/147, 356/614, 356622-623
• US Class Current: 348/335
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/26 characterised by optical transfer means, i.e. using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light

Abstract

A method of positioning by using image uses an image-collecting device with a known angle of view to gain a digital image. A pixel matrix of the digital image is defined as the known angle of view and a gap between every two adjacent pixels of each horizontal line and each longitudinal line is an equally divided angle of the known angle. A displaying objective is shown on an image sensor and has a datum point of computing of a position angle. A camera lens has a principal axis directing to the datum point such that a calculating unit can compute an angle formed between the displaying objective and the principal axis.

Claims

1. A method of positioning by using image, comprising the steps of:

using an image sensor at a known angle of view to gain a digital image;

providing a pixel matrix of the digital image being defined as the known angle of view and a gap between every two adjacent pixels of each horizontal line and each longitudinal line being an equally divided angle of the known angle;

displaying an object imaged on the image sensor and displaying a datum point used for computing of a position angle;

providing a camera lens having a principal axis corresponding to the datum point such that a calculating unit can compute an angle formed between the displayed object and the principal axis, the camera lens having at least two focal lengths and at least two angles of view corresponding to the two focal lengths to thereby be adjustable for adjusting a size of the displaying objective and the calculating unit computing a change of the angles of view.

2. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the known angle of view of the image-collecting device is the angle of view through the camera lens.

3. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the known angle of view of the image-collecting device is a format size of an image sensor of a focal plane of the camera lens.

4. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying objective is selected by the calculating unit due to the digital image pixels of a moving objective within the angle of view of the image-collecting device.

5. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the known angle of view is used as a digital image source of a display, the displaying objective marked in a pixel area on an image sensor by a selecting unit and the calculating unit computing a geometry center of the pixel area.

6. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 5, wherein the selecting unit is a mouse for marking the displaying objective.

7. The method of positioning by using image as claimed in claim 5, wherein a recording unit is provide to remember the angle that is formed between the displaying objective and the principal axis such that the calculating unit computes again when another objective appears within the angle of view of the camera lens.