168 results about "Object view" patented technology

A camera control apparats (10) comprises a control device for controlling the zoom, pan and tilt conditions of a camera. Data relating to the positioning of the camera in pan, tilt and zoom is transmitted to the control means and the control means converts the data into a value in a co-ordinate system, for example (3D) polar co-ordinates. The camera may be controlled and directed by pointing a pointer to an area in the image displayed whereby in response to selection of a point on a display the control means pans and / or tilts the camera so that the image viewed by the camera is centred substantially on the point selected. Still further, an area of the screen can be selected, for example by tracking and dropping a box using a mouse pointer on a computer screen and the control means is arranged to pan and tilt the camera so the image is centred on the centre of the selected area and zoomed so that the selected area becomes substantially the entire image viewed by the camera. In a further aspect a multiple camera control apparatus is provided in which a plurality of cameras may be controlled using the aforesaid control apparatus and the multiple camera control apparatus includes data relating to the location of the cameras with reference to the site plan so that multiple cameras can be co-ordinated to provide better image data, blind spot illumination and 'hand over' functionality. Still further a security apparatus is provided in which a camera views an image and the security apparatus includes image processing means and data relating to the site viewed by the camera so as to determine the location and size of an object viewed.

A user terminal contains an input / output mechanism, an image capture device used to capture an image of a scene, a range imaging image capture device used to create a depth map of the scene, a processor that combine the image and the depth map into a model of the scene, a memory that stores the depth map and the image, and a display that displays the model. Utilizing this system, a user is able to view, measure, and calculate 3D data representing real world data, including but not limited to position, distance, location, and orientation of objects viewed in the display. The retrieves this information by making inputs into the terminal, including, in an embodiment of the invention, touch inputs selecting images on a touch screen.

Images of an object viewed from a plurality of points of view is input through an image inputting unit. Change of orientation of the image inputting means, occurring when the images of the object are input, is detected. Change of position of point of view, occurring when the images of the object are input, is detected. Characteristic points are extracted from the image which is input previously, each of the characteristic points corresponding to a respective one of objects points on the object. Corresponding points are extracted from the image which is input currently, each of the corresponding points corresponding to a respective one of the characteristic points. The three-dimensional position of each of the object points is calculated, based on the change of orientation and the change of position of point of view of the image inputting unit and the data of the characteristic points and the corresponding points.

An intra ocular lens arrangement having positive and negative lens elements which move during the eye's accommodation response in order to improve the image on the retina of objects viewed by the eye over a wide range of distances. The positive and negative lens elements either can be linked mechanically to constrain their relative movements or not linked. The lenses are positioned by an operating surgeon following cataract extraction in either the eye's ciliary sulcus or lens capsule. Alternatively, one of the lenses may be inserted into an eye that already has a lens implanted therein to further improve a person's vision. An improved intra ocular lens has is an optic lens having at least two pairs of haptics that controls the movement of the optic lens along the optical axis of the eye in response to the movement of the ciliary muscle of the eye acting on the haptics during the accommodation response, one pair of haptics having one end hinged to the lower half of the optic lens and the second end connected to an upper portion of the ciliary muscle, and a second pair of haptics hinged to an upper half of the optic lens and to a lower potion of the ciliary muscle.

The invention relates to a system (300) for performing and visualizing a measurement of an object viewed in an image computed from image data, the system comprising an image unit (310) for visualizing the image data in the image for displaying in a display, a deployment unit (320) for deploying a caliper (21; 22; 23; 24) in an image data space based on the location of the object in the image data space, and a caliper unit (330) for visualizing the caliper (21; 22; 23; 24) in the image, wherein the caliper (21; 22; 23; 24) comprises a first planar surface (211) and a second planar surface (212) substantially parallel to the first planar surface (211), and wherein the measurement of the object is determined based on the distance between the planes of the first and second planar surface. Viewing the first and second planar surfaces of the caliper, visualized together with the measured object, improves the visualization of the measurement of an anatomical or pathological structure, because the first and second planar surface help a user to relate the measurement to the object—to see what is being measured. Advantageously, in an embodiment of the system (300), manually aligning the first and second planar surface with the object may also improve capturing the size of the object, because the system makes the measurement both easier to obtain and more accurate.

An intraocular lens arrangement having positive or negative lens with a frame that extends from the lens to provide diametrically opposed upper and lower frame sections. A first lens linkage has its first end attached to the upper frame section with at least two points of contact with the upper frame section. A second lens linkage has its first end attached to the lower frame section with at least two points of contact with the lower frame section. A second end of said first lens linkage and a second end of the second lens linkage are attached to a sulcus or zonule member to provide relatively large movement of the lens with a small movement of the ciliary muscle during accomodation response of the eye, and wherein the movements during the accommodation response are along the optical axis of the eye and are controlled in order to improve the image on the retina of objects viewed by the eye over a wide range of distances. The lens is preferably a positive lens with the appropriate frame. The haptics that connect the frame to the sulcus member is at least two pairs of haptics or alternatively a pair of single curved haptics that each have a sulcus connecting member. The intraocular lens cand contain a positive lens as note above along with a negative lens.

A capsule endoscope is disclosed that includes first and second objective optical systems for forming images of objects viewed in the capsule insertion direction and in the opposite direction on separate areas of one plane where an image pickup surface of an image pickup device is located. The capsule endoscope also includes illuminators for illuminating the objects, and a deflector or deflectors, such as reflecting prisms, for folding light from the objective optical systems to the image pickup surface so that the image pickup surface is parallel to the capsule insertion direction. The objective optical systems are retrofocus optical systems. The illuminators may have emission surfaces centered on the centers of spheres defined by dome-shaped transparent covers aligned along a central axis of the capsule endoscope. The objective optical systems, the deflector or deflectors, and the image pickup device are arranged completely off the central axis of the capsule endoscope.

A system and a method for object selective camera flash are provided herein. The steps of the method may include: capturing a raw image of a scene using a capturing device, wherein a scene comprises background and objects viewed by the capturing device; indicating at least one location on the captured raw image, wherein the location on the captured image corresponds with a location in the scene; calculating a volume portion within the scene based on the indicated at least one location on the captured raw image; generating a flash pulse having specified parameters directed at the scene; synchronizing an exposure of the capturing device to be carried out when reflections of the flash pulse from the calculated volume portion reaches the capturing device; and accumulating the reflections to yield an enhanced image.