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Autofocus video tool and method for precise dimensional inspection

A refined autofocus method provides optimized lighting between iterative autofocus operations, to reliably provide the best possible autofocus Z-height precision. The method includes a quantitative initial focus Z-height determination based on initial focus curve data from initial autofocus images acquired using initial light control parameters. Then, the camera is set at that initial focus Z-height such that well focused images are provided. Refined (optimized) light control parameters are then determined based on at least one respective image acquired using respective light control parameters at that Z-height, such that an image acquired using the refined light control parameters provides a near-optimum value for a contrast-related metric (e.g., a focus metric) at that Z-height. Then, refined autofocus images are acquired using the refined light control parameters and a refined precise Z-height is quantitatively determined base on the resulting focus curve.
Owner:MITUTOYO CORP

Camera system

In a camera system according to the present invention, a lens controller obtains an exposure synchronizing signal that is generated by a camera controller from a camera body, causes a configuration formed of a first encoder, a second encoder and a counter to detect the position of a focus lens according to the obtained exposure synchronizing signal, and notifies the camera body of the detected position of the focus lens. The camera controller associates the position of the focus lens or the mechanism member obtained from the lens controller with an AF evaluation value based on the exposure synchronizing signal, and controls an autofocus operation of the camera system based on the position and AF evaluation value that are associated with each other. With this configuration, it is possible to improve the accuracy of an autofocus operation with a contrast system.
Owner:PANASONIC CORP

Autofocus video tool and method for precise dimensional inspection

A refined autofocus method provides optimized lighting between iterative autofocus operations, to reliably provide the best possible autofocus Z-height precision. The method includes a quantitative initial focus Z-height determination based on initial focus curve data from initial autofocus images acquired using initial light control parameters. Then, the camera is set at that initial focus Z-height such that well focused images are provided. Refined (optimized) light control parameters are then determined based on at least one respective image acquired using respective light control parameters at that Z-height, such that an image acquired using the refined light control parameters provides a near-optimum value for a contrast-related metric (e.g., a focus metric) at that Z-height. Then, refined autofocus images are acquired using the refined light control parameters and a refined precise Z-height is quantitatively determined base on the resulting focus curve.
Owner:MITUTOYO CORP

Camera System, Camera Body, And Interchangeable Lens

A camera system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body. A body controller in the camera body performs control to transmit a timing signal and a drive information signal to the interchangeable lens. A lens controller in the interchangeable lens controls drive of a focus lens based on the drive information signal and the timing signal which are received from the camera body. The drive information signal includes information of a driving time which is a period from a start of driving the focus lens until an end of driving the focus lens.
Owner:PANASONIC CORP

Self-focusing preprocessing method based on short-time fractional order Fourier domain filter

The invention relates to a self-focusing preprocessing method based on a short-time fractional order Fourier domain filter, which belongs to the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal processing. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) extracting a phase error signal of a single special showing point; (2) judging whether the phases of the phase error signal mainly are quadratic phase or not; (3) filtering noise in a transform domain: if the phases mainly are quadratic phases, using short-time fractional order Fourier domain filter; otherwise, using short-time Fourier domain filter; and (4) inversely transforming result time frequency to a time domain, estimating and compensating the phase error and realizing self-focusing preprocessing. The method effectively solves the problems of estimation and compensation of the phase error in a low-signal-to-noise ratio environment, especially the estimation and compensation of the quadratic phase error, and can obtain the main part of a phase error course and greatly improve the imaging quality after removing the phase error course from an original signal, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a special showing point signal.
Owner:BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYGY

Camera System

In a camera system including an interchangeable lens and a camera body, a body controller performs control a drive signal transmission unit to drive a focus lens in a predetermined direction, and transmit a timing signal to the interchangeable lens. The lens controller performs control to detect a position of the focus lens in synchronization with the timing signal received from the camera body and store the detected position in a storage unit.
Owner:PANASONIC CORP

Self-focusing method for strip synthetic aperture radar images

The invention discloses a self-focusing method for strip synthetic aperture radar images, and belongs to a self-focusing method for SAR images. The invention combines a phase gradient self-focusing PGA algorithm with a sub-aperture related MD algorithm to be applied to an algorithm PGA-MD in the self-focusing of strip synthetic aperture radar images. The method comprises the following steps: performing self-focusing processing on each sub-image by adopting the PGA algorithm to obtain high-precision sub-aperture phase error functions; calculating linear phase difference between sub-aperture phase error functions by utilizing the relationship between adjacent sub-images position phase offset and linear phase and applying the MD algorithm for realizing phase splicing; and finishing self-focusing processing for the strip SAR images. The invention substitutes the MD algorithm for traditional process of carrying out sub-aperture phase error function splicing based on the second derivative and improves the self-focusing effect of the strip SAR images.
Owner:苏州杰岚德信息技术有限公司

AF control apparatus and AF control method

A CPU performs a control for photographing a main subject in absence of auxiliary light, whereby an image signal is outputted from an analogue signal processing section. Next, the CPU performs a control for photographing the main subject in presence of the auxiliary light, whereby an image signal is outputted from the analogue signal processing section. An AF area extracting section extracts image signals in an AF area from the image signals. A differential signal calculating section outputs a differential signal between the extracted image signal, and a distance measuring section compares magnitudes of that differential signal and a reference value in a distance data base to calculate distance information based on the comparison result. An AF control section executes AF control of mountain climbing system with the use of the distance information.
Owner:MEGACHIPS

Image pickup apparatus having improved contrast autofocus accuracy

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that includes a plurality of focus detection pixels, a phase difference detection type of a first focus detector, a contrast detection type of a second focus detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to allow the second focus detector to continue the focus detection when the shift amount detected by the first focus detector is larger than a threshold even when the second focus detector detects the lens position corresponding to the peak of the contrast value, and to move the image pickup lens to a lens position that provides a peak of a contrast value detected by the second focus detector when the shift amount is the threshold or smaller.
Owner:CANON KK

Method for laser-assisted automatic focusing, and apparatus

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for laser-assisted automatic focusing. The method comprises: a laser-assisted focusing function starting instruction is received to activate a laser-assisted focusing function; a camera shooting instruction is received to start laser-assisted focusing; according to the focusing position of the camera, laser pulse transmitter and receiver are rotated and a low-intensity laser pulse is sent to the focusing position of the camera by the laser pulse transmitter; the laser pulse receiver receives the reflected low-intensity laser pulse, and a distance between an intelligent terminal and the focusing position of the camera is calculated according to time between sending the low-intensity laser pulse and receiving the low-intensity laser pulse; and according to the distance between the intelligent terminal and the focusing position of the camera, an image distance of the camera is set and focusing is carried out. According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the laser pulse transmitter and receiver can be rotated according a focusing position needed by a user and laser-assisted automatic focusing at different focusing positions is supported, so that the automatic focusing precision of the intelligent terminal is improved and thus the user experience is improved.
Owner:YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMM SCI (SHENZHEN) CO LTD

Automatic focusing unit and method

InactiveCN102478699AReduce the amount of sensing signal variationImprove autofocus accuracyMountingsLight beamFocal position
The invention discloses an automatic focusing unit and method. The automatic focusing unit comprises: a light source emitting a light beam, a light path adjuster which adjusts the emission direction of the light beam emitted by the light source entering the light path adjuster, an objective lens which makes the light beam adjusted by the light path adjuster emit to a detecting object, an optical sensor which senses an image formed by reflection of the light beam adjusted by the light path adjuster entering the detecting object, with the light path adjuster reducing the position change of the image sensed by the optical sensor, a signal processing unit that judges the off-focusing position of the detecting object according the image sensed by the optical sensor, and a drive unit which, controlled by the signal processing unit, changes the relative position between the objective lens and the detecting object to make the detecting object move to a focusing position of the objective lens.The automatic focusing unit can reduce the influence of the light source disturbance upon the automatic focusing precision.
Owner:IND TECH RES INST

SA-ISAR (Sparse Aperture-Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) self focusing method based on structure sparsity and entropy joint constraints

The invention belongs to the field of radar signal processing, and particularly relates to an SA-ISAR (Sparse Aperture-Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) self focusing method based on structure sparsity and entropy joint constraints. The method comprises the following steps of Step 1, performing echo modeling on radar echo subjected to envelope alignment; Step 2, applying layered structured sparseprior to an ISAR image; Step 3, updating the ISAR image and an upper layer variable by a relax variational bayes method; Step 4, updating a phase error through a minimum entropy method based on fixedpoints; and Step 5, judging whether a termination condition is reached or not, stopping iterative loop if the termination condition is reached, returning to the Step 3 if the termination condition isnot reached, and outputting an image subjected to self focusing after the termination condition is reached. The SA-ISAR self focusing method has the advantages that the self focusing precision of theISAR images at the sparse aperture can be improved, so that the formed ISAR images are clearer; the calculation complexity is lower; the iterative convergence speed is faster; and the sparse apertureresistance capability is high.
Owner:NAT UNIV OF DEFENSE TECH

Endoscope device

An objective of the present invention is to allow simplification of an assessment of a determination of a direction of movement of a focusing lens, and to improve auto-focusing precision. Provided is an endoscope device, comprising: an optical assembly (14), further comprising a focusing lens (14a); a lens drive means (15) for moving the focusing lens in the optical axis direction and switching the observation depth; an image capture means (17) for acquiring optical images of a subject via the optical assembly as a plurality of images with respectively different focal locations; a movement direction determination means (31) for assessing, on the basis of the plurality of images, whether it is necessary to switch the observation depth, and if it is assessed that it is necessary to switch the observation depth, for determining the direction of movement of the focusing lens on the basis of the images; and a drive control means (27) for controlling the lens drive means to move the focusing lens in the determined direction of movement.
Owner:OLYMPUS CORP

Camera system, camera body, and interchangeable lens

A camera system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body. A body controller in the camera body performs control to transmit a timing signal and a drive information signal to the interchangeable lens. A lens controller in the interchangeable lens controls drive of a focus lens based on the drive information signal and the timing signal which are received from the camera body. The drive information signal includes information of a driving time which is a period from a start of driving the focus lens until an end of driving the focus lens.
Owner:PANASONIC CORP

Auto-focusing method and apparatus for projection apparatus and projection apparatus

The present invention provides an auto-focusing method and apparatus for a projection apparatus and the projection apparatus, wherein a current acceleration value is detected by an acceleration sensorarranged in the projection apparatus; A main processor receives and determines whether that current acceleration value has changed; If yes, the image acquisition unit acquirs the second geometric parameter of the current identification image; ing an absolute difference between the first geometric parameter and the second geometric parameter can be determined according to the first geometric parameter determined based on the original identification image; whether the absolute difference value is greater than or equal to the adjusted geometric threshold value is judged; If yes, the electric motor is controlled to move to drive the optical machine, the image acquisition unit acquires the current image, the main processor receives the current image and determines the definition value of the current image, and when the definition value of the current image is greater than or equal to the definition threshold value, the electric motor is controlled to stop the movement;otherwise, the acceleration sensor continues to detect the current acceleration value. According to the invention, the accuracy of auto-focusing of the projection device is improved and the viewing experience of the useris enhanced.
Owner:HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECH

Electronic apparatus equipped with detachable image pickup apparatuses, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

An electronic apparatus that achieves a function of a compound eye camera using a plurality of photographing modules and that improves AF accuracy even if environmental conditions vary or even if a state is changed by impact from outside. The electronic apparatus includes two photographing modules. A first obtaining unit performs contrast AF by one of the two photographing modules to obtain a first focus detection result. A second obtaining unit calculates an object distance from parallax information between the two photographing modules to obtain a second focus detection result. A correction unit corrects a calculation result of the object distance obtained by the second obtaining unit in a case where a state of at least one of the two photographing modules and a body of the electronic apparatus varies and where a difference between the first and second focus detection results is more than a threshold.
Owner:CANON KK

Camera system

In a camera system according to the present invention, a lens controller obtains an exposure synchronizing signal that is generated by a camera controller from a camera body, causes a configuration formed of a first encoder, a second encoder and a counter to detect the position of a focus lens according to the obtained exposure synchronizing signal, and notifies the camera body of the detected position of the focus lens. The camera controller associates the position of the focus lens or the mechanism member obtained from the lens controller with an AF evaluation value based on the exposure synchronizing signal, and controls an autofocus operation of the camera system based on the position and AF evaluation value that are associated with each other. With this configuration, it is possible to improve the accuracy of an autofocus operation with a contrast system.
Owner:PANASONIC CORP

Imaging device and focal point detector

A focal point detector includes: a condenser lens for transmitting a light image from an optical system; and a distance measurement sensor group for receiving a luminous flux which has passed through the condenser lens. The sensor group includes a first distance measurement sensor pair for receiving divided beams of the luminous flux for a first focus detection region which is located off the center of a shooting region. The first distance measurement sensor pair includes first and second distance measurement sensors. The first focus detection region extends in a first direction in the shooting region from a position where the first focus detection region is spaced from the center in the first direction and also in a second direction. The first and second distance measurement sensors are spaced from each other and arranged at different angles in the direction associated with the first direction on the sensor arrangement surface.
Owner:SONY CORP

Image capturing device and calibration method of phase detection autofocus thereof

An image capture device and a calibration method of phase detection autofocus thereof are provided. A contrast-based autofocus procedure is executed to move a lens to multiple lens positions, and a statistical distribution of focus values is obtained based on the contrast-based autofocus procedure. Whether the phase linear relationship for a phase detection autofocus procedure is calibrated is determined according to the statistical distribution of the focus values. If yes, then a first phase difference detected when the lens is located at one of the lens positions is obtained, and a second phase difference detected when the lens is located at another one of the lens positions is obtained. The phase linear relationship of the phase detection autofocus procedure is calibrated according to the one of the lens positions, the first phase difference, the other one of the lens positions, and the second phase difference.
Owner:ALTEK SEMICON

Image pickup apparatus having improved contrast autofocus accuracy

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that includes a plurality of focus detection pixels, a phase difference detection type of a first focus detector, a contrast detection type of a second focus detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to allow the second focus detector to continue the focus detection when the shift amount detected by the first focus detector is larger than a threshold even when the second focus detector detects the lens position corresponding to the peak of the contrast value, and to move the image pickup lens to a lens position that provides a peak of a contrast value detected by the second focus detector when the shift amount is the threshold or smaller.
Owner:CANON KK

COB camera module and packaging method thereof

The invention discloses a COB camera module and a packaging method thereof. The voice coil motor comprises a circuit board, a chip attached to the circuit board, a light filtering assembly attached tothe chip, a motor and a lens locked inside the motor, the motor is glued to the light filtering assembly, the locking height of the lens on the motor is h1, and the distance between the voice coil motor and the light filtering assembly is h2. The camera module is packaged by adopting two specific sizes of h1 and h2, and is matched with compensation type optical axis correction, so that the automatic focusing accuracy of the camera module and the optical axis overlap ratio between modules can be improved to the greatest extent. The automatic focusing accuracy of the COB camera module is improved by adopting two specific sizes of h1 and h2; defective products are accurately discriminated through compensation type optical axis correction, and meanwhile, the fault tolerance of optical axis correction is improved, so that the yield is improved; grading of the COB camera module can be completed in the packaging process through primary optical axis correction and compensation type secondarycorrection of the camera active focusing equipment.
Owner:横店集团东磁有限公司

Auto-focus method

An auto-focus (AF) method adapted for an image capturing device includes following steps. When a first press signal generated by a user pressing a button of the image capturing device is detected, a local peak searching method is applied to perform an AF procedure. It is determined whether a second press signal generated by the user pressing the button is detected. If not, it is determined whether a first released signal generated by the user releasing the button is detected. The continuous pressing count is calculated according to the first released signal and the first press signal that are continuously generated. Whether the continuous pressing count is greater than a first threshold is determined. If yes, a global peak searching method is applied to perform the AF procedure. If not, the local peak searching method is still applied to perform the AF procedure.
Owner:ALTEK CORP

Miniature camera applying stepping ultrasonic motor and control method for miniature camera

The invention discloses a miniature camera applying a stepping ultrasonic motor and a control method for the miniature camera. The miniature camera applying the stepping ultrasonic motor comprises a motor base, a stator, a rotor, a lens mount and a pre-pressing device, wherein the stator, the rotor and the lens mount are arranged on the motor base in sequence, and the pre-pressing device is used for applying pre-pressure to the lens mount; the stator comprises an elastomer and a piezoelectric ceramic piece, wherein the piezoelectric ceramic piece is arranged on the lower surface of the elastomer and is used for exciting standing-wave vibration; at least two electrodes are arranged on the lower surface of the piezoelectric ceramic piece; at least one contact tooth is arranged on the rotor,and the rotor makes contact with the upper surface of the elastomer through the contact teeth. According to the miniature camera and the control method thereof, the electrodes are controlled to be electrified in different ways, the principle that nodes after standing wave superposition are located between two nodes before standing wave superposition is adopted, and therefore the automatic focusingprecision of the miniature camera applying the stepping ultrasonic motor is improved.
Owner:深圳市三阶微控实业有限公司

Driver module, electronic device, method of controlling driving module

The driving module controls the supply of current to a shape memory alloy member by setting a command value for an electrical resistance of the shape memory alloy member so that the lens frame is moved intermittently to thereby controlling the driving of driving means. The driving module includes control means which includes resistance detection means, command value generation means, and current supplying means. The command value generation means changes the command value gradually by a predetermined variation width R so that the electrical resistance of the shape memory alloy member increases or decreases gradually by a predetermined width when the lens frame is moved intermittently. Moreover, the command value generation means performs a correction calculation which uses the ratio of an actual reference value R 0 of the electrical resistance of the shape memory alloy member to an ideal reference value R stan of the electrical resistance of the shape memory alloy member as a correction ratio to calculate a correction variation width by multiplying the correction ratio by an ideal variation width R step of the command value R t ( n ) to thereby change the command value R t ( n ) gradually using the correction variation width as the variation width R.
Owner:SEIKO INSTR INC

Imaging device and focal point detector

A focal point detector includes: a condenser lens for transmitting a light image from an optical system; and a distance measurement sensor group for receiving a luminous flux which has passed through the condenser lens. The sensor group includes a first distance measurement sensor pair for receiving divided beams of the luminous flux for a first focus detection region which is located off the center of a shooting region. The first distance measurement sensor pair includes first and second distance measurement sensors. The first focus detection region extends in a first direction in the shooting region from a position where the first focus detection region is spaced from the center in the first direction and also in a second direction. The first and second distance measurement sensors are spaced from each other and arranged at different angles in the direction associated with the first direction on the sensor arrangement surface.
Owner:SONY CORP

Automatic focusing unit and method

InactiveCN102478699BReduce the amount of sensing signal variationImprove autofocus accuracyMountingsLight beamSignal processing
The invention discloses an automatic focusing unit and method. The automatic focusing unit comprises: a light source emitting a light beam, a light path adjuster which adjusts the emission direction of the light beam emitted by the light source entering the light path adjuster, an objective lens which makes the light beam adjusted by the light path adjuster emit to a detecting object, an optical sensor which senses an image formed by reflection of the light beam adjusted by the light path adjuster entering the detecting object, with the light path adjuster reducing the position change of the image sensed by the optical sensor, a signal processing unit that judges the off-focusing position of the detecting object according the image sensed by the optical sensor, and a drive unit which, controlled by the signal processing unit, changes the relative position between the objective lens and the detecting object to make the detecting object move to a focusing position of the objective lens. The automatic focusing unit can reduce the influence of the light source disturbance upon the automatic focusing precision.
Owner:IND TECH RES INST

Auto-focus method

An auto-focus (AF) method adapted for an image capturing device includes following steps. When a first press signal generated by a user pressing a button of the image capturing device is detected, a local peak searching method is applied to perform an AF procedure. It is determined whether a second press signal generated by the user pressing the button is detected. If not, it is determined whether a first released signal generated by the user releasing the button is detected. The continuous pressing count is calculated according to the first released signal and the first press signal that are continuously generated. Whether the continuous pressing count is greater than a first threshold is determined. If yes, a global peak searching method is applied to perform the AF procedure. If not, the local peak searching method is still applied to perform the AF procedure.
Owner:ALTEK CORP

Method and device for laser-assisted autofocus

The embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for laser-assisted auto-focusing. The method includes: receiving an instruction to activate the laser-assisted focusing function to activate the laser-assisted focusing function; receiving a camera shooting instruction to start the laser-assisted focusing; Rotating the laser pulse transceiver, sending low-intensity laser pulses to the focus position of the camera through the laser pulse transmitter; receiving the reflected low-intensity laser pulses through the laser pulse receiver, according to sending and receiving the low-intensity laser pulses Calculate the distance between the smart terminal and the focus position of the camera; set the image distance of the camera and focus according to the distance from the smart terminal to the focus position of the camera. The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention can rotate the laser pulse transceiver according to the focus position required by the user, support laser-assisted auto-focus at different focus positions, improve the auto-focus accuracy of the smart terminal, and thereby improve user experience.
Owner:YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMM SCI (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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