Image capture control device, image capture control method, and recording medium
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi IWAI, Hiroshi IWAMURA, Osamu SHIBATA, Tomohiro HONDA, Tomohito NAGATA
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Abstract
An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.
Claims15
An image capture control device that controls an imaging device, the imaging device including an infrared light irradiation unit, an infrared light reception unit, and a visible light reception unit, the image capture control device comprising:
- a distance detector that measures a distance to a target that reflects transmission pulses with a time-of-flight (TOF) method, based on a time difference between a time when the infrared light irradiation unit emits the transmission pulses and a time when the infrared light reception unit receives infrared light;
- a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation of peripheral of the imaging device corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data generated by the visible light reception unit that has received visible light;
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- a controller that causes the infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of the transmission pulses to be emitted to the target when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.
An image capture control method that controls an imaging device including an infrared light irradiation unit, an infrared light reception unit, and a visible light reception unit, the image capture control method comprising:
- measuring a distance to a target that reflects transmission pulses with a time-of-flight (TOF) method, based on a time difference between a time when the infrared light irradiation unit emits the transmission pulses and a time when the infrared light reception unit receives infrared light;
- determining whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation of the peripheral of imaging device based on image data generated by the visible light reception unit that has received visible light;
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- controlling the infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of the transmission pulses to be emitted to the target when the peripheral situation is determined to correspond to the predetermined situation.
A recording medium that records a program of an image capture control method that controls an imaging device including an infrared light irradiation unit, an infrared light reception unit, and a visible light reception unit, the program causing a computer to perform:
- measuring a distance to a target that reflects transmission pulses with a time-of-flight (TOF) method, based on a time difference between a time when the infrared light irradiation unit emits the transmission pulses and a time when the infrared light reception unit receives infrared light;
- determining whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data generated by the visible light reception unit that has received visible light;
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- controlling the infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of the transmission pulses to be emitted to the target when the peripheral situation is determined to correspond to the predetermined situation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.