Drone with a front-view camera with segmentation of the sky image for auto-exposure control

    公开(公告)号:US10171746B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-01

    申请号:US15256404

    申请日:2016-09-02

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Abstract: The drone comprises a camera (14), an inertial unit (46) measuring the drone angles, and an extractor module (52) delivering image data of a mobile capture area of reduced size dynamically displaced in a direction opposite to that of the variations of angle measured by the inertial unit. The module analyses the image data elements of the useful area to assign to each one a weighting coefficient representative of a probability of belonging to the sky, and defines dynamically a boundary of segmentation (F) of the useful area between sky and ground as a function of these weighting coefficients. Two distinct groups of regions of interest ROIs are defined, for the sky area and for the ground area, respectively, and the dynamic exposure control means are controlled as a function of the image data of the ROIs of one of these groups, in particular by excluding the ROIs of the sky area.

    DRONE WITH A FRONT-VIEW CAMERA WITH SEGMENTATION OF THE SKY IMAGE FOR AUTO-EXPOSURE CONTROL
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    发明申请
    DRONE WITH A FRONT-VIEW CAMERA WITH SEGMENTATION OF THE SKY IMAGE FOR AUTO-EXPOSURE CONTROL 审中-公开
    带有前视摄像头,带有自动曝光控制的天空图像分割

    公开(公告)号:US20170078552A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-16

    申请号:US15256404

    申请日:2016-09-02

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Abstract: The drone comprises a camera (14), an inertial unit (46) measuring the drone angles, and an extractor module (52) delivering image data of a mobile capture area of reduced size dynamically displaced in a direction opposite to that of the variations of angle measured by the inertial unit. The module analyses the image data elements of the useful area to assign to each one a weighting coefficient representative of a probability of belonging to the sky, and defines dynamically a boundary of segmentation (F) of the useful area between sky and ground as a function of these weighting coefficients. Two distinct groups of regions of interest ROIs are defined, for the sky area and for the ground area, respectively, and the dynamic exposure control means are controlled as a function of the image data of the ROIs of one of these groups, in particular by excluding the ROIs of the sky area.

    Abstract translation: 无人机包括摄像机(14),测量无人机角度的惯性单元(46),以及提取器模块(52),其输送尺寸减小的移动捕获区域的图像数据,该移动捕获区域以与 角度由惯性单元测量。 该模块分析有用区域的图像数据元素以分配给每一个表示属于天空的概率的加权系数,并且动态定义天空和地面之间的有用区域(F)的边界作为函数 的这些加权系数。 对于天空区域和地面区域分别定义了两个不同的感兴趣区域组,并且动态曝光控制装置根据这些组中的一个的ROI的图像数据被控制,特别是由 不包括天空区域的ROI。

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