Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for estimating focal length of camera
- Patent Title (中): 用于估计摄像机焦距的装置和方法
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Application No.: US11945759Application Date: 2007-11-27
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Publication No.: US08238648B2Publication Date: 2012-08-07
- Inventor: Jae Chul Kim , Chang Woo Chu , Ho Won Kim , Jeung Chul Park , Ji Young Park , Seong Jae Lim , Bon Ki Koo
- Applicant: Jae Chul Kim , Chang Woo Chu , Ho Won Kim , Jeung Chul Park , Ji Young Park , Seong Jae Lim , Bon Ki Koo
- Applicant Address: KR Taejon
- Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Current Assignee Address: KR Taejon
- Agency: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP
- Priority: KR10-2006-0121355 20061204; KR10-2007-0100389 20071005
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
Provided is a camera self-calibration method that calculates a focal length of a fixed zoom lens camera from a correspondence point position between images. In the method, a cost function, which is a function of a focal length, is defined, and a focal length that minimizes the defined cost function is obtained to obtain a focal length that allows 3D recovery results of correspondence points calculated from all image pairs coincide with one another. Therefore, reliability of the calculated focal length can be easily verified, and the focal length of the camera can be stably calculated even when the position of input correspondence point is inaccurately given.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080131108A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FOCAL LENGTH OF CAMERA Public/Granted day:2008-06-05
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