Image capturing system

• US 9,137,430 B1
• Filed: 06/19/2014
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Aono, Sousuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasiewicz, Daniel M
• Application Number:
  US14/309,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20150271412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 13/02 Viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/05 Combinations of cameras with electronic flash apparatus; Electronic flash units
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/561 Support related camera accessories
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/565 Optical accessories, e.g. converters for close-up photography, tele-convertors, wide-angle convertors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00535 using rotatably mounted or foldable components
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00562 Supporting the apparatus as a whole, e.g. stands
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/19594 using a television camera or a still video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0096 Portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/56 provided with illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof

Abstract

An image capturing system includes a portable image capturing device and a lighting apparatus. The portable image capturing device includes, an image capturing unit, a display unit that displays a photographed image and a control unit. The lighting apparatus includes, a base unit including an image-capturing-device mounting face on which the portable image capturing device is mounted to photograph the medium installation face, a mirror to reflect the image displayed on the display unit, and a mirror detector that detects that the mirror is arranged. The control unit corrects a distortion in the image displayed on the display unit when the mirror is not detected by the mirror detector, and corrects the distortion and performs vertical inversion of the image on the display unit when the mirror is detected by the mirror detector. Corrected image is displayed on the display unit.

Claims

1. An image capturing system comprising:

a portable image capturing device that includes,

an image capturing unit,

a display unit that displays an image photographed by the image capturing unit, and

a control unit configured to control the portable image capturing device; and

a lighting apparatus that includes,

a base unit disposed on a medium installation face on which a medium can be placed,

an arm unit extending upward from the base unit,

a top unit extending from the arm unit and facing the medium installation face,

an image-capturing-device mounting face arranged on the top unit and on which the portable image capturing device is mounted so that the image capturing unit can photograph the medium installation face,

a lighting unit that irradiates the medium installation face with light,

a mirror that is arranged above the image-capturing-device mounting face to reflect the image displayed on the display unit toward the medium installation face, and

a mirror detector that detects that the mirror is arranged, wherein

the lighting apparatus and the portable imaging device communicate with each other, and

the control unit

performs first image correction processing for correcting a distortion in the image that occurs corresponding to a positional relation between the image capturing unit and the medium installation face and displays the corrected image on the display unit when the mirror is not detected by the mirror detector, or

performs second image correction processing for correcting the distortion and a vertical inversion of the image and displays the corrected image on the display unit when the mirror is detected by the mirror detector.

2. The image capturing system according to claim 1, wherein

the arm unit includes an accommodating part that accommodates the mirror, and

the mirror detector detects that the mirror is moved from the accommodating part to be arranged above the image-capturing-device mounting face.

3. The image capturing system according to claim 1, wherein

the mirror is rotatably supported by the image-capturing-device mounting face, faces the image-capturing-device mounting face in a put-down state, and is arranged above the image-capturing-device mounting face in an raised state, and

the mirror detector detects that the mirror is raised.