Imaging apparatus controller and control method thereof, image processing apparatus and method thereof, and program code and storage medium

• US 6,943,829 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2001
• Issued: 09/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Katayama, Akihiro, Endo, Takaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Garber, Wendy R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LUONG TRUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/818,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20040201708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,630 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.11, 348/207.99, 348/211.1, 348/211.4, 348/211.11, 348/36, 348/38, 348/39, 348/47, 348/48, 348/207.1, 348/201.11, 348/218.1
• US Class Current: 348/207.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/70 Circuitry for compensating brightness variation in the scene

Abstract

Settings (sample settings) are obtained from each CCD camera. A PC calculates an average of the settings sent from all CCD cameras via a distributor. The calculated average is used as new settings for setting up all the CCD cameras again. And the obtained average is sent to each CCD camera through the distributor to set up each CCD camera again.

Claims

1. A controller for controlling settings of a plurality of imaging apparatuses, comprising:

detection means for detecting an imaging state of each of said imaging apparatuses;

calculation means for calculating first settings of control parameters for each of said imaging apparatuses based on a detection result from said detection means; and

set-up means for setting up each of said imaging apparatuses to said first settings calculated by said calculation means,

wherein said detection result is second settings properly adjusted to each of said imaging apparatuses, and

wherein said calculation means calculates first settings for an imaging apparatus of interest depending on a difference in second settings between said imaging apparatus of interest and an imaging apparatus adjacent to said imaging apparatus of interest.

2. A controller for controlling settings of a plurality of imaging apparatuses, comprising:

detection means for detecting an imaging state of each of said imaging apparatuses;

calculation means for calculating first settings of control parameters for each of said imaging apparatuses based on a detection result from said detection means; and

set-up means for setting up each of said imaging apparatuses to said first settings calculated by said calculation means,

wherein said detection result is obtained from a sensor provided in proximity to each of said imaging apparatuses and said detection result is used as second settings for each of said imaging apparatuses, and

wherein said calculation means calculates first settings for an imaging apparatus of interest depending on a difference in second settings between said imaging apparatus of interest and an imaging apparatus adjacent to said imaging apparatus of interest.

3. A controller for controlling settings of a plurality of imaging apparatuses, comprising:

detection means for detecting an imaging state of each of said imaging apparatuses;

calculation means for calculating first settings of control parameters for each of said imaging apparatuses based on a detection result from said detection means; and

set-up means for setting up each of said imaging apparatuses to said first settings calculated by said calculation means,

wherein said detection result is a distribution of brightness calculated from an imaging taken by an imaging apparatus which is capable of imaging a wider field view and said detection result is used as second settings for each of said imaging apparatuses based on said distribution, and

wherein said calculation means calculates first settings for an imaging apparatus of interest depending on a difference in second settings between said imaging apparatus of interest and an imaging apparatus adjacent to said imaging apparatus of interest.