Method for capturing convergent-type multi-view image

• US 8,159,523 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Wook-Joong, Ahn, Sang-Woo, Lee, In-Jae, Ki, Myung-Seok, Kim, Kyu-Heon, Hong, Jin-Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): BOUTAH, ALINA A
• Application Number:
  US11/718,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20090135244A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,457 Days
• Field of Search: 348/36, 348/47, 348/E7.001, 382/154
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/221 using the relative movement between cameras and objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/282 for generating image signals corresponding to three or more geometrical viewpoints, e.g. multi-view systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations

Abstract

Provided is a method for convergent type three-dimensional (3D) multi-viewpoint image acquisition. The method for acquiring a multi-viewpoint image in an image acquisition apparatus comprises the steps of: converting the image acquisition apparatus to a multi-viewpoint image photographing mode; if converted to the multi-viewpoint image photographing mode in the converting step, providing a plurality of geometric shapes to set a position of an object to be photographed within a screen and selecting a desired shape of the geometric shapes in response to an inputted shape selection signal; if the desired geometric shape is selected in the shape providing step, adjusting a position and a size of the selected geometric shape in response to a shape adjustment signal; and photographing a whole image having the object that places within the adjusted geometric shape in the adjusting step.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring a multi-viewpoint image in an image acquisition apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) converting the image acquisition apparatus to a multi-viewpoint image photographing mode;

(b) providing a plurality of geometric shapes to set a position of an object to be photographed within a screen and selecting a desired shape of the geometric shapes in response to an inputted shape selection signal, and wherein the desired shape of the geometric shapes is selected prior to the object being photographed;

(c) adjusting a position and a size of the selected geometric shape in response to a shape adjustment signal; and

(d) photographing a plurality of different images of the object, and wherein each of the plurality of different images of the object is photographed while having each of the respective images within the adjusted geometric shape in said step (c).

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step (b) includes the steps of:

(b1) setting a focus for an object to be photographed;

(b2) providing a plurality of geometric shapes to set a position of the object to be photographed;

(b3) receiving selection information on a desired shape of the geometric shapes; and

(b4) arranging the geometric shape selected in said step (b3) to be placed at a center of the screen at an initial time.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step (c) includes the steps of:

(c1) moving the selected geometric shape up, down, left and right in response to an up, down, left, and right movement signal;

(c2) adjusting a size of the selected geometric shape in response to a size adjustment signal; and

(c3) fixing the geometric shape whose position and size have been moved and adjusted in said steps (c1) and (c2).

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the geometric shape is polygonal.

5. A method for acquiring a multi-viewpoint image in an image acquisition apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) converting the image acquisition apparatus to a multi-viewpoint image photographing mode;

(b) providing a plurality of geometric shapes to set a position of an object to be photographed within a screen and selecting a desired shape of the geometric shapes in response to an inputted shape selection signal, wherein the desired shape of the geometric shapes is selected prior to the object being photographed, and wherein the object is photographed while the object is within the geometric shape;

(c) adjusting a position and a size of the selected geometric shape in response to a shape adjustment signal; and

(d) photographing a plurality of different images of the object, and wherein each of the plurality of different images of the object is photographed while having each of the respective images within the adjusted geometric shape in said step (c).