Trigger for camera trap
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsThomas John O'Brien, Eric Berkenpas, Charles Michael Shepard, Eric Daniel Flynn
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Abstract
A system and method for capturing fames (e.g., images) in an environment. In one example, a system includes a main camera configured to capture target images or frames of the environment and a trigger in communication with the main camera and configured to selectively activate the main camera. The trigger includes a trigger camera having a field of view at least partially aligned with a field of view of the main camera and a processing element in communication with the trigger camera and the main camera, the processing element selectively activates the main camera based on scene images captured by the trigger camera.
Claims27
A system for activating an accessory comprising:
- a trigger for capturing a plurality of scene frames within an environment and having a first field of view;
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- an accessory for capturing a plurality of target frames within the environment and having a second field of view, wherein the first field of view and the second field of view at least partially overlap;
- a processing element in communication with the trigger, wherein the processing element is configured to:
- analyze a scene frame captured by the trigger to identify an object present in both the first field of view and the second field of view from among a plurality of different possible objects present within the scene frame;
- based on the identified object being present in both the first field of view and the second field of view, activating the accessory.
A method of activating an accessory for capturing images in an environment comprising:
- capturing a background image of the environment with a trigger having a first field of view, wherein the accessory has a second field of view at least partially overlapping the first field of view;
- capturing a scene image of the environment;
- analyzing the scene image relative to the background image to determine that a change in the environment has occurred;
- analyzing the scene image to identify an object present in both the first field of view and the second field of view from among a plurality of different possible objects present in the scene frame;
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- based on the identified object being present in both the first field of view and the second field of view, activating the accessory to capture a target image of the identified object.
A system for capturing images in an environment comprising:
- a main camera configured to capture target images of the environment;
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- a trigger in communication with the main camera and configured to selectively activate the main camera, wherein the trigger comprises:
- a trigger camera having a field of view at least partially aligned with a field of view of the main camera;
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- a processing element in communication with the trigger camera and the main camera, wherein the processing element selectively activates the main camera based on identifying an object present in both the trigger camera field of view and the main camera field of view from among a plurality of different possible objects present in scene images captured by the trigger camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.