Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for determining the movement of an optical axis
- Patent Title (中): 用于确定光轴移动的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13179971Application Date: 2011-07-11
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Publication No.: US08625004B2Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- Inventor: Sarah Elizabeth Witt
- Applicant: Sarah Elizabeth Witt
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: GB1014337.8 20100827
- Main IPC: H04N5/262
- IPC: H04N5/262 ; H04N5/228

Abstract:
A method of determining the movement in position of the optical axis of a camera having an optical zoom lens, comprising the steps of: obtaining a test image at a predetermined level of optical zoom; applying a digital zoom to at least part of the test image, selecting a plurality of test points in the digitally zoomed test image; changing the level of optical zoom by a predetermined amount and changing the level of digital zoom; obtaining the test image at the different level of zoom; analyzing the digitally zoomed test image at the different level of optical zoom; searching at least part of the digitally zoomed test image at the different level of zoom for two of said plurality of said test points; converting the position of the test points in the digitally zoomed images into corresponding positions within the optically zoomed images; and determining the amount of movement of the optical axis on the basis of the difference in position between corresponding test points within the optically zoomed images.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120050540A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE MOVEMENT OF AN OPTICAL AXIS Public/Granted day:2012-03-01
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