Photography system with depth and position detection
AssigneeLifetouch Inc.
InventorsMichael J. Surma, Jolinda K. Conzemius
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Abstract
A photography system includes a digital camera and a depth and position detection device. The digital camera is configured to capture a digital image of a subject. The depth and position detection device scans the subject and determines three-dimensional locations of the subject and any other objects within the field of view. The depth and position detection device also determines locations of body points of the subject. The depth and position information can then be mapped to the digital image.
Claims16
A photography system capable of detecting a pose of a subject when a portrait photograph of the subject is captured and associating the pose to the portrait photograph, comprising:
- a portrait camera configured to generate a portrait image capturing a subject posing for a portrait photograph;
- one or more lights operable to illuminate the subject posing for the portrait photograph while the portrait camera generates the portrait image capturing the subject;
- a depth and position device configured to scan the subject while the portrait camera generates the portrait image capturing the subject when the subject is illuminated by the one or more lights, wherein the depth and position device is configured to generate depth and position data associated with the subject as a result of scanning the subject;
- a system controller operable to control the portrait camera, the one or more lights, and the depth and position device to synchronize illumination by the one or more lights, capturing of the portrait image of the subject, and scanning of the subject within a predetermined time difference;
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- a computing device configured to receive the depth and position data and the portrait image, wherein the computing device is configured to map the depth and position data onto to the subject in the portrait image.
A photography system capable of detecting a pose of a subject when a portrait photograph of the subject is captured and associating the pose to the portrait photograph, comprising:
- a portrait camera configured to generate a portrait image capturing a subject posing for a portrait photograph;
- one or more lights operable to illuminate the subject posing for the portrait photograph;
- a depth and position device configured to scan the subject and to generate depth and position data associated with the subject,
- wherein the depth and position data include body point position data associated with the subject,
- wherein the depth and position device is further configured to capture a low-resolution digital image of the subject;
- a system controller operable to control the portrait camera, the one or more lights, and the depth and position device to synchronize illumination by the one or more lights, capturing of the portrait image of the subject, and scanning of the subject within a predetermined time difference;
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- a computing device configured to receive the depth and position data and the portrait image, wherein the computing device is configured to map the depth and position data onto to the subject in the portrait image,
- wherein the computing device is configured to map the body point position data associated with the subject from the low-resolution digital image to the subject in the portrait image, wherein the computing device is configured to identify a reference point in the portrait image and the low-resolution digital image, wherein the body point position data associated with the subject is mapped from the low-resolution digital image to the subject in the portrait image further based on the reference point in the portrait image and the low-resolution digital image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.