System for accurately repositioning imaging devices
OwnerKen VanBreeinventor
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Abstract
The invention provides a system and a method for accurately repositioning an imaging device in order to acquire or project a new image of a scene of interest. Accurate repositioning of an imaging device is necessary for generating or displaying high quality time-lapse image sequences for a variety of applications.
Claims12
An imaging system to reposition an image capture device in a position relative to a subject of interest as that of a reference image of the subject of interest, comprising:
- an image capture device;
- a position apparatus on which the image capture device is mounted, operable to orient the image capture device relative to a subject of interest;
- a reference image of the subject of interest;
- a computational device coupled to the position apparatus, such computational device capable of receiving images from the image capture device and of receiving the reference image, performing a comparison, and communicating position adjustments to reposition the image capture device.
A method for repositioning an image capture device relative to a subject of interest comprising the steps of:
- a) initializing an imaging system, wherein initializing includes the steps of
- a.1) obtaining a reference image of the subject of interest;
- a 2) repositioning an image capture device relative to the subject of interest;
- b) imaging the subject of interest;
- c) computing the difference between the reference image of the subject of interest and the image capture device image;
- d) refining the position of the image capture device so that the image capture device is in the same position relative to the subject of interest as that position from which the reference image was obtained.
An apparatus for positioning an imaging device and adapted for operably coupling to an image capture device and where such apparatus is capable of positioning said image capture device, such that the positioning of the image capture device is controllable and said apparatus is operable to orient the image capture device relative to a subject of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.