Detection of hand obstruction for image capture device
AssigneeGoPro, Inc.
InventorsEva Coupeté, Matias Tassano Ferres, Nicolas Bessou
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Abstract
An image capture device may detect presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of a field of view of an optical element during capture of visual content through the optical element. The image capture device may generate an alarm to indicate the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.
Claims18
An image capture device for detecting hand obstruction, the image capture device comprising:
- a housing;
- an image sensor carried by the housing and configured to generate a visual output signal conveying visual information based on light that becomes incident thereon, the visual information defining visual content;
- an optical element carried by the housing and configured to guide light within a field of view to the image sensor;
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- one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
- capture the visual content during a capture duration, the visual content captured through the optical element;
- determine presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of the field of view of the optical element during the capture duration based on analysis of a peripheral portion of the visual content, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content includes comparison of color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with hand color values;
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- responsive to the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element, generate an alarm indicating the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.
A method for detecting hand obstruction, the method performed by an image capture device including one or more processors, an image sensor, and an optical element, the image sensor configured to generate a visual output signal conveying visual information based on light that becomes incident thereon, the visual information defining visual content, the optical element configured to guide light within a field of view to the image sensor the method comprising:
- capturing the visual content during a capture duration, the visual content captured through the optical element;
- determining presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of the field of view of the optical element during the capture duration based on analysis of a peripheral portion of the visual content, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content includes comparison of color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with hand color values;
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- responsive to the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element, generating an alarm indicating the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.