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US 12,407,922 B2Granted
Imaging assistance apparatus, imaging system, imaging assistance method, and imaging assistance program
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorHiroaki Kikuchi
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Abstract
In one aspect, an imaging assistance apparatus includes: a laser light projection device having a laser light source that generates laser light and a laser head provided with an optical element that projects the laser light as patterned light having a determined pattern; a reception device that receives a first operation; a projection instruction device that instructs the laser light projection device during laser light projection to end the projection of the patterned light, on the basis of the first operation; and an imaging instruction device that instructs an imaging device to image a subject on which focusing control is performed, on the basis of the first operation.
Claims22
An imaging system comprising:
- an imaging assistance apparatus comprising:
- a laser light projection device having a laser light source that generates laser light and a laser head provided with an optical element that projects the laser light as patterned light having a determined pattern;
- a reception device that receives a first operation;
- a projection instruction device that instructs the laser light projection device during laser light projection to end the projection of the patterned light, on the basis of the first operation;
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- an imaging instruction device that instructs an imaging device to image a subject on which focusing control is performed, on the basis of the first operation;
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- the imaging device,
- wherein the imaging device performs the focusing control and the imaging in response to an instruction from the imaging assistance apparatus,
- the imaging system further comprises a memory in which a repetition instruction for causing the imaging assistance apparatus to repeat a preparation operation performed before the first operation and the first operation at a predetermined cycle is recorded,
- the imaging assistance apparatus repeats an instruction to start the projection of the patterned light based on the preparation operation and to end the projection of the patterned light based on the first operation, an instruction to perform the focusing control, and an instruction to perform the imaging, in accordance with the repetition instruction, and
- the imaging device repeats the focusing control and the imaging at the cycle in response to the instruction from the imaging assistance apparatus to image the subject.
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An imaging system comprising:
- an imaging assistance apparatus comprising:
- a laser light projection device having a laser light source that generates laser light and a laser head provided with an optical element that projects the laser light as patterned light having a determined pattern;
- a reception device that receives a first operation;
- a projection instruction device that instructs the laser light projection device during laser light projection to end the projection of the patterned light, on the basis of the first operation;
- and
- an imaging instruction device that instructs an imaging device to image a subject on which focusing control is performed, on the basis of the first operation;
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- the imaging device,
- wherein the imaging device performs the focusing control and the imaging in response to an instruction from the imaging assistance apparatus,
- the imaging device performs the focusing control on the basis of a signal output from a focusing control pixel disposed in an imaging element, and
- the imaging assistance apparatus projects the patterned light having a pattern corresponding to a disposition direction of the focusing control pixel.
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An imaging system comprising:
- an imaging assistance apparatus comprising:
- a laser light projection device having a laser light source that generates laser light and a laser head provided with an optical element that projects the laser light as patterned light having a determined pattern;
- a reception device that receives a first operation;
- a projection instruction device that instructs the laser light projection device during laser light projection to end the projection of the patterned light, on the basis of the first operation;
- and
- an imaging instruction device that instructs an imaging device to image a subject on which focusing control is performed, on the basis of the first operation;
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- the imaging device,
- wherein the imaging device performs the focusing control and the imaging in response to an instruction from the imaging assistance apparatus,
- the imaging device performs the focusing control on the basis of a signal output from a focusing control pixel disposed in an imaging element, and
- the imaging assistance apparatus projects laser light having a wavelength range that at least partially overlaps with a transmission wavelength range of an optical filter disposed in the focusing control pixel, as the patterned light.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.