This application is a U.S. National Stage filing under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of, and claims priority to, International Patent Cooperation treaty (PCT) application No. PCT/CN2013/088531, filed Dec. 4, 2013, and entitled “IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD,” which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201310268508.5, filed with the Chinese Patent Office on Jun. 28, 2013 and entitled “IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD” which applications are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.
The subject application relates to the field of imaging technologies, and, more particularly, to imaging generation or capture.
Wearable devices such as Google glass and smartwatches are gradually accepted by people, and these electronic smart devices will make people's life more and more convenient.
Conventional myopia glasses or hyperopia glasses add a concave lens or a convex lens with a fixed focal length before the eye of a person that suffers from a refractive error to correct various refractive error problems of different causes. However, conventional glasses have the troubles of optometry and lens fitting, and can only solve problems such as correction within a certain distance range. For an object beyond a certain distance, a user may be unable to obtain a clear image and has an indistinct vision, or sees the object with a difficulty that the eyes get tired easily.
Based on the foregoing case, multi-focus glasses with each lens having a plurality of different focal lengths appear. By using an example in which glasses are worn for eyes with both presbyopia and myopia, the upper portion of the glass is a myopia lens and is used to help a user to see an object at a far place clearly; the lower portion of the glass is a hyperopia lens and is used to help a user to see an object at a near place clearly. However, the user needs to see a far place through the upper portion of the glass while see a near place through the lower portion; for example, the user needs to lower the head to see an object that is low at a far place and raise the head to see a object that is high at a near place; or the user needs to manually adjust the position of the glasses, which makes the use troublesome.
Similarly, healthy human eyes and an imaging recording apparatus such as a camera or a video recorder also cannot obtain clear images of objects at all distances within a visual field. For example, when healthy human eyes see an object very close to the eyes, the eyes may also see the object unclearly or get tired.
When a plurality of different objects of different depths exists in a visual field, the lens cannot switch rapidly among different focal lengths.
A technical problem to be solved by the various embodiments is to provide an imaging apparatus and method, which enable an imaging receiver to comfortably receive clear images of objects at different distances, thereby improving user experience.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the subject application provides an imaging apparatus, which includes:
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the subject application provides an imaging method, which includes:
For an apparatus and method of embodiments of the subject application, an imaging lens module having a plurality of subregions having adjustable imaging parameters adjusts an imaging parameter of a corresponding subregion for an object according to a different distance of the object relative to the imaging lens module, which enables an imaging receiver (for example, a user's eyes) to conveniently obtain clear imaging of objects at different distances.
Particularly, for a user's eyes that suffers from a problem such as a refractive error, the apparatus and method of embodiments of the subject application may solve the problems, such as indistinct vision and eye exhaustion caused by insufficient (when myopic eyes see an object at a far place, or hyperopic eyes see an object at a near place) or excessive (myopic eyes see an object at a near place, or hyperopic eyes see an object at a far place) refractive correction, that occur in watching objects at different distances; problems of indistinct vision and eyes exhaustion caused by decreased lens adjustment range when presbyopic eyes see objects at a near place and at a far place at the same time; and problems of indistinct vision and eyes exhaustion caused by optical axis offsets from astigmatism and strabismus.
Also, compared with a lens with adjustable overall focal length, the apparatus and method of embodiments of the subject application do not need to continuously adjust the overall focal length of the lens according to different distances of objects, and therefore does not bring about undesirable experience such as dizziness for a user.
The present disclosure will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present disclosure, and wherein:
A method and apparatus of various embodiments of the subject application are illustrated below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
An imaging receiver has a limited adjustment range of an imaging parameter such as a focal length. By using an example that the imaging receiver is a user's eyes (definitely, the imaging receiver may further be an imaging recording apparatus such as a video recorder and a camera), a user with a normal eyesight may be unable to see, or sees with a great difficulty, an object very close to the eyes. The adjustment range is limited further for eyes that have problems such as refractive errors such as myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia, and astigmatism and strabismus. By using presbyopic eyes that are not normal for both near vision and far vision as an example, to see an object clearly, the eyes often stay in an adjustment state, which easily causes eye exhaustion. Although common glasses can be worn for correction, glasses in the prior art can hardly perform imaging correction for objects at both a far place and a near place.
Therefore, as shown in
An imaging receiver may obtain an expected image of the object through a corresponding subregion of the imaging lens module 110.
Through the imaging apparatus in an embodiment of the subject application, an imaging parameter can be adjusted for regions corresponding to a plurality of target objects at different distances in a visual field at the same time, respectively, which enables a user to comfortably watch objects at different distances in the visual field, respectively, thereby improving user experience.
As shown in
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In a preferred implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the imaging parameter of a subregion 111 includes: a shape and/or a refractive index of a lens of the subregion 111.
In this implementation manner, the adjustment to the imaging parameter of the subregion 111 may be: for example, the curvature of the lens of the subregion 111 is adjusted to change the focal length of the subregion 111; or the refractive index of the lens of the subregion 111 is adjusted to change the focal length of the subregion 111. In addition, for an astigmatic user, the surface of the lens of the subregion 111 can be adjusted to a cylindrical surface to correct astigmatism; for a strabismal user, the surface of the lens of the subregion 111 can be adjusted to a prismatic surface to correct strabismus. Definitely, in other possible implementation manners of an embodiment of the subject application, the imaging lens module may further include two or more lenses, and in this case, for an astigmatic or strabismal user, the subregion 111 of one lens is adjusted to a cylindrical surface or a prismatic surface.
In this implementation manner, preferably, the subregions 111 of the imaging lens module are distributed in an array. Preferably, the imaging plane of the imaging lens group is divided in a mesh form to obtain the plurality of subregions 111. The plurality of subregions 111 may have a same size, or may also be different in size. Generally speaking, when the subregions 111 are divided smaller, the precision of adjustment is higher.
Preferably, as shown by the imaging lens group 110 on the left side of the glasses in
Preferably, as shown by the imaging lens group 110 on the right side of the glasses in
In
Definitely, a person skilled in the art shall understand that in addition to the foregoing rectangular array and radially concentric array, the subregions may further be distributed in another type of array or not in an array.
In a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, preferably, the position sensing module 120 includes: a depth sensing unit, used to acquire position and depth information of the at least one object relative to the imaging apparatus.
In a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the depth sensing unit is a depth detector.
In other implementation manners of an embodiment of the subject application, the position sensing module 120 may also include:
The position and depth information of an object may be obtained according to the image information of the object. For example: if the image sensor is a binocular image sensor, the position and depth information of the object may be obtained according to the image information obtained by the binocular image sensor. In addition, the distance of the object relative to the imaging lens module can be further obtained from the feature information of the object (target recognition and known sizes, for example, blue sky, white cloud, mountains, woods, and the like are usually far views, books, television screens, mobile phones, and the like are usually near views, and computer screens, roads, and the like are usually middle views) and/or the clarity information of the object that are obtained from the image information, the focusing distance, and the like (for example, the focusing distance of the image sensor is known, while a clear image in the image is at a position near the focusing distance), and to obtain the position and depth information of an object according to the image information of the object belongs to the prior art, which is therefore no longer elaborated here.
As shown in
The imaging receiver examination unit 131 is used to determine a relative position relationship among the imaging lens module 110, the position sensing module 120, and the imaging receiver 200 (for example, the left and right pupils). In this implementation manner, the imaging receiver examination unit 131 can precisely correct the relative position relationship among the imaging lens module 110, the position sensing module 120, and the imaging receiver 200 to obtain more precise imaging parameters. However, in other implementation manners of an embodiment of the subject application, because the positions of the imaging lens module 110 and the position sensing module 120 are fixed when the imaging apparatus is complete, and also, the position of the time imaging receiver 200 relative to the imaging lens module 110 may be predicted (for example, the distance from a lens of glasses to an eye can usually be estimated within a reasonable offset), so that the information processing module 130 may also not include the imaging receiver examination unit 131.
The refractive examination unit 132 is used to learn corresponding imaging parameters when the imaging receiver 200 acquires expected images of objects at a plurality of distances, and obtain refractive examination information corresponding to the imaging receiver. Here, the expected image may be, for example, a clear image or a relatively clear image of an object. When the imaging receiver 200 is eyes, the expected image here may be a clear or relatively clear image of an object that a user's eyes watch comparatively comfortably, that is, when the user watches the clear image of the object, the eyes do not require excessive adjustment and do not get exhausted easily.
Table 1 shows a representative example of refractive examination information of a myopia user corresponding to the imaging receiver in this embodiment obtained in this implementation manner. Here, the target distance is the distance between an object and an imaging apparatus (in other implementation manners, the distance between an object and the imaging receiver can further be selected as the target distance). The optimal refractivity is the refractivity that a corresponding region of the imaging lens module is required to reach when the user's eyes watch the clear image of the object comfortably at the target distance. In other embodiments of the subject application, the refractive examination information may further include, for example, optical parameter information for other refractive errors such as astigmatism or strabismus.
For example, it is assumed that the distance between an object and the imaging apparatus is 1 m, and therefore the imaging parameter of the subregion corresponding to the object corresponds to the refractivity −5.75. It is assumed that the distance between an object and the imaging apparatus is 0.8 m, and therefore the optimal refractivity corresponding to the distance of 0.8 m may be obtained through an interpolation method according to the corresponding optimal refractivities of 0.5 m and 1 m, and an imaging parameter of a corresponding subregion is further obtained. A person skilled in the art should know that when the granularity of the distance of the object for learning the imaging parameter corresponding to the imaging receiver is smaller, more refractive examination information is obtained, and the accuracy of the imaging parameter of the required subregion obtained through the refractive examination information is higher.
The distance calculation unit 133 is used to calculate the distance of the at least one object relative to the imaging lens module 110 according to the position information of the at least one object relative to the imaging apparatus. Here, the distance of the at least one object relative to the imaging lens module 110 may be directly obtained from the position information. For example, the position information is the depth view information obtained by the depth sensing unit, and the distance of the object relative to the imaging lens module 110 may be directly obtained from the view. In addition, the distance of the at least one object relative to the imaging lens module 110 can further be obtained through calculation and analysis of, for example, image information of the object obtained by the optical sensor. For example, the distance of the object relative to the imaging lens module 110 is obtained through the feature information of the object and/or the clarity information of the object in the image information of the object, the focusing distance, and the like as discussed above.
The subregion determination unit 134 is used to determine a subregion 111 corresponding to the object on the imaging lens module. As shown in
The imaging parameter calculation unit 135 is used to calculate the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion 111 of each object according to the distance of each object relative to the imaging lens module 110 and the refractive examination information. In this implementation manner, the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion 111 of each object is calculated through the lookup method based on Table 1.
Preferably, as shown in
In this implementation manner, to prevent hopping of each subregion in time and space on the imaging lens module 110, the information processing module 130 further includes a history information smoothing unit 136 and a space information smoothing unit 137.
The history information smoothing unit 136 is used to perform smoothing processing of time on the current imaging parameter of each subregion 111 according to history information of the imaging parameter of each subregion 111.
The space information smoothing unit 137 is used to perform smoothing processing of space on the imaging parameter of each subregion 111 according to the imaging parameter of each subregion 111 of the imaging lens module.
To avoid that when a user moves at a high speed, because an object in a visual field keeps changing, timely adjustment fails as the adjustment speed of the imaging apparatus cannot follow the speed that the object changes or the user feels dizzy though timely adjustment succeeds, preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, as shown in
Here, the movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus includes: the relative movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus and the object and/or the movement speed information of the imaging apparatus.
Preferably, in this implementation manner, the movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus can be acquired by adding a movement gesture sensing module in the imaging apparatus.
Preferably, as shown in
As shown in
In a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, preferably, as shown in
As shown in
The communications among the processor 810, the communications interface 820, and the memory 830 are accomplished through the communications bus 840.
The communications interface 820 is used to perform network element communications.
The processor 810 is used to execute a program 832, and specifically can execute the functions corresponding to the units in the information processing module in
Specifically, the program 832 may include a program code, and the program code includes a computer operation instruction.
The processor 810 may be a central processing unit (CPU), or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or one or more integrated circuits configured to implement an embodiment of the subject application.
The memory 830 is used to store the program 832. The memory 830 may contain a high-speed random access memory (RAM) memory, or may also further include a non-volatile memory, for example, at least one disk memory. The program 832 can specifically enable the information processing module 800 to execute the following steps:
The specific implementation of the steps in the program 832 can be referred to the corresponding description of corresponding steps or units in embodiments, which is no longer elaborated here. A person skilled in the art shall clearly understand that for convenience and simplicity of description, the specific work process of devices and modules described above can be referred to the description of the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, which is no longer elaborated here.
As shown in
Through the imaging apparatus in an embodiment of the subject application, the imaging parameter may be adjusted for regions corresponding to a plurality of target objects at different distances in a visual field at the same time, which enables a user to comfortably watch objects at different distances in the visual field, thereby improving user experience.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the imaging lens module includes at least one lens.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the imaging parameter of the subregion includes: a shape and/or a refractive index of a lens of the subregion.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the subregions of the imaging lens module are distributed in an array. Preferably, the subregions are distributed in a rectangular array or the subregions are distributed in a radially concentric array.
Specifically, the structure of the imaging lens module is as discussed in the foregoing apparatus embodiment, which is no longer described here.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the step of obtaining position information of at least one object relative to an imaging apparatus includes: acquiring position and depth information of the at least one object relative to the imaging apparatus.
In other possible implementation manners of an embodiment of the subject application, the step of obtaining position information of at least one object relative to an imaging apparatus includes: acquiring image information of the at least one object.
The implementation manner of the subject application may obtain the position information of at least one object relative to the imaging apparatus according to the position and depth information of the object relative to the imaging apparatus or the image information of the object, and the specific implementation manner is as discussed in the foregoing apparatus embodiment, which is no longer described here.
As shown in
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, Step S130 further includes: determining a relative position relationship among the imaging lens module, the position sensing module, and an imaging receiver.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the method further includes: performing smoothing processing of time on the current imaging parameter of each subregion according to history information of each subregion imaging parameter.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the method further includes: performing smoothing processing of space on the imaging parameter of each subregion according to the imaging parameter of each subregion of the imaging lens module.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the method further includes: the step of acquiring movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the method further includes: determining the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion of the imaging lens module according to the movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus. Preferably, the movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus includes: the relative movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus and the object and/or the movement speed information of the imaging apparatus.
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the step of determining the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion of the imaging lens module according to movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus includes:
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the step of determining the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion of the imaging lens module according to movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus includes:
Preferably, in a possible implementation manner of an embodiment of the subject application, the step of determining the imaging parameter of the corresponding subregion of the imaging lens module according to movement gesture information of the imaging apparatus includes:
The specific implementation manner of the foregoing steps may be implemented according to the corresponding description of the foregoing apparatus embodiment, which is no longer described here.
A person skilled in the art may understand that in the method of the specific implementation manner of the subject application, the sequence numbers of the steps do not mean a specific execution sequence, and the execution sequence of the steps should be determined based on the functions and internal logic thereof, rather to constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the specific implementation manner of the subject application.
A method of an embodiment of the subject application enables a user to obtain the clearest effect when watching a real scenario.
Persons of ordinary skill in the art may further appreciate that, in combination with the examples described in embodiments herein, units and algorithm steps may be implemented by electronic hardware or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed using hardware or software depends on particular applications and design constraints of the technical solutions. A person skilled in the art may use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application. However, such implementation should not be considered as beyond the scope of the subject application.
If implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as an independent product, the functions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on this, the above technical solution or the part that makes contributions to the prior art can be substantially embodied in the form of a software product. The computer software product may be stored in a storage medium and contain several instructions to instruct computer equipment (for example, a personal computer, a server, or network equipment) to perform all or a part of the steps of the method described in embodiments of the subject application. The storage medium may be any medium that is capable of storing program codes, such as a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a RAM, a magnetic disk or an optical disk.
The above implementation manners are merely provided for describing the various embodiments, but not intended to limit the present inventions. It should be understood by persons of ordinary skill in the art that various changes and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present inventions as defined by the claims of the present inventions.
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