Image capture device with booth
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJonathan G. McGuire, Jon D. Mittelstaedt
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Abstract
A system for capturing images of an object includes an image capture booth, one or more lights coupled to the image capture booth, a platter coupled to the image capture booth, and a hanger coupled to the image capture booth. The image capture booth includes panels that enclose a space for imaging objects. The lights illuminate at least a portion of the space. The platter and the hanger each support objects for imaging of the objects in the image capture booth.
Claims29
A system for capturing images of an object, comprising:
- an image capture booth comprising one or more panels configured to at least partially enclose a space for imaging objects;
- one or more lights coupled to the image capture booth, wherein at least one of the lights is configurable to illuminate at least a portion of the space;
- a platter coupled to the image capture booth, wherein the platter is configurable to support objects for imaging of the objects in the image capture booth;
- and
- a hanger rotatably coupled to the image capture booth, wherein the hanger is configurable to couple with an object so that the object is suspended from the hanger, wherein the hanger is configured to rotate the object in the image capture booth about an axis passing through the object while the object is suspended from the hanger.
An image capture booth, comprising:
- a frame;
- one or more illumination panels, the illumination panels at least partially enclosing a space for capturing images of objects in the image capture booth,
- wherein at least one of the illumination panels comprises at least one diffuser configured to diffuse light onto objects in the image capture booth;
- and
- at least one light located outside of the space and configured to cast light through the diffuser into the space, wherein the at least one diffuser and the at least one light are commonly coupled to the frame and movable relative to the frame,
- wherein at least one of the illumination panels is adjustable relative to the space.
A system for capturing images, comprising:
- an image capture booth comprising one or more illumination panels configured to at least partially enclose a space for imaging objects;
- one or more object supports coupled to the image capture booth configured to support objects in the space in the image capture booth;
- a camera configured to capture images of objects on at least one of the object supports in the image capture booth;
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- a camera support configured to support the camera device;
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- at least one object transport device configured to automatically transport at least one object to at least one of the object supports.
A method of capturing images of an object, comprising:
- positioning an image capture booth and one or more cameras in proximity with one another, the image capture booth comprising one or more panels, one or more lights, and one or more object supports coupled to one another, wherein the one or more object supports comprise a hanger;
- suspending an object from the hanger;
- adjusting at least one of the panels or at least one of the lights relative to at least one of the object supports;
- rotating the hanger such that the object suspended from the hanger in the image capture booth rotates about an axis passing through the object and such that the view of the object from the camera changes;
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- capturing images of the object in the image capture booth from two or more different views.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.