CN210605349U

CN210605349U - Monocular panoramic camera

Info

Publication number: CN210605349U
Application number: CN201921703151.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈杰聪; 李德文
Original assignee: Guangdong Wulian Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Wulian Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-11
Filing date: 2019-10-11
Publication date: 2020-05-22
Anticipated expiration: 2029-10-11

Abstract

The utility model discloses a monocular panoramic camera, which comprises an image acquisition module, wherein the image acquisition module comprises a fisheye lens and an image sensor and is used for shooting photos, and the vertical field angle is more than 180 degrees; the rotating mechanism is used for driving the image acquisition module to rotate around a vertical shaft, and the rotating shaft of the image acquisition module is vertical to the optical axis of the fisheye lens; and the control processing module is electrically connected with the image acquisition module and the rotating mechanism and is used for controlling the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to work. The fisheye lens rotates the in-process of shooing, and vertical field angle is greater than 180 degrees, can cover the latitude direction completely, also can have certain overlap region between the vertical field angle to can guarantee to obtain comprehensive complete image group in vertical direction, need not adjust the every single move angle of camera lens module many times, improve and shoot efficiency, the image acquisition module has all obtained comprehensive image group in horizontal direction and vertical direction around the rotatory a week of rotation axis back.

Description

Monocular panoramic camera

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a photographic goods technical field, concretely relates to monocular panoramic camera.

Background

Panoramic photography not only has a 360-degree visual angle, but also can bring a three-dimensional feeling by using a real photo, so that an observer can be immersed in the panoramic photography, which cannot be achieved by common pictures and three-dimensional modeling, and therefore, the panoramic photography can be widely applied to a plurality of fields such as scenic spots, advertisements, websites, buildings, products, criminal investigation and the like. Panoramic cameras are mainly divided into a multi-eye panoramic camera and a monocular panoramic camera; the multi-view panoramic camera needs to be provided with a plurality of lenses, and can complete the shooting of photos at a plurality of angles through the plurality of lenses; the monocular panoramic camera needs to make the lens reach different angle positions to respectively shoot in a mode of rotating the lens; compared with a multi-view panoramic camera, the single-view panoramic camera has a relatively simple structure and lower manufacturing cost due to the fact that the number of lenses is small.

The existing monocular panoramic camera generally comprises a lens module, a rotating component and the like, wherein the rotating component is used for driving the lens module to rotate around a vertical shaft, and when the camera module rotates to shoot a photo, a certain overlapping area exists between the horizontal field angles of the lens at two adjacent shooting angle positions, so that a complete and complete image group can be obtained in the horizontal direction, and the synthesis of the panoramic photo is facilitated; however, in the case of shooting with only one rotation, it is difficult to ensure that there is enough overlap area in the vertical direction, so that the obtained image group is difficult to achieve the full and complete requirement in the vertical direction; in order to solve the problem, a common method at present is to adjust the pitch angle of the lens module for multiple times, and rotate the lens module around a vertical shaft at different pitch angles to perform multiple horizontal angle shooting, so as to obtain more comprehensive image groups, so that the image groups can meet the comprehensive and complete requirements in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction; however, adjusting the pitch angle of the lens module many times can make the shooting process more complicated and seriously affect the shooting efficiency of the panoramic photo.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving one of the technical problem that exists among the prior art at least. Therefore, the utility model provides a monocular panoramic camera to under the rotatory condition of shooing a week, shoot all satisfy the complete picture group that requires comprehensively in horizontal direction and vertical direction, thereby improve the efficiency that the panorama photo was shot.

The technical purpose of the utility model is realized by the following technical proposal; a monocular panoramic camera, comprising: the image acquisition module comprises a fisheye lens and an image sensor and is used for taking a picture, and the vertical field angle is larger than 180 degrees; the rotating mechanism is used for driving the image acquisition module to rotate around a vertical shaft, and the rotating shaft of the image acquisition module is vertical to the lens of the fisheye lens; and the control processing module is electrically connected with the image acquisition module and the rotating mechanism and is used for controlling the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to work.

The utility model discloses following beneficial effect has at least: the fisheye lens rotates the in-process of shooing, and vertical field angle is greater than 180 degrees, can cover the latitude direction completely, also can have certain overlap region between the vertical field angle to can guarantee to obtain comprehensive complete image group in vertical direction, need not adjust the every single move angle of camera lens module many times, improve and shoot efficiency, the image acquisition module has all obtained comprehensive image group in horizontal direction and vertical direction around the rotatory a week of rotation axis back.

The improvement of the technical scheme comprises a setting module used for inputting the number of photos to be shot when the image acquisition module rotates for a circle and/or inputting the rotation angle between two adjacent shooting points of the image acquisition module, wherein the setting module is electrically connected with the control processing module, and the control processing module can control the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module according to signals sent by the setting module.

And the storage module is electrically connected with the control processing module and is used for storing the picture shot by the image acquisition module.

And the communication module is electrically connected with the control processing module and is used for sending the picture shot by the image acquisition module to external equipment.

And the display screen and the touch screen switch keys are electrically connected with the control processing module.

And further, the USB charging device further comprises a rechargeable battery and a USB charging interface, and the USB charging interface and the rechargeable battery are electrically connected with the control processing module.

The fisheye lens is characterized by further comprising a shell, wherein the control processing module, the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module are all arranged in the shell, and the light incidence end of the fisheye lens is exposed out of the shell.

Furthermore, the monocular panoramic camera further comprises a restart key used for restarting the monocular panoramic camera, the restart key is arranged inside the shell and electrically connected with the control processing module, and a restart small hole is formed in the position, corresponding to the restart key, of the shell.

Further, still including setting up the support of casing below, rotary mechanism is including the motor of vertical setting, the output shaft of motor is connected the support. (in the specification, it is indicated that a stepping motor or a reduction motor is preferably used)

Furthermore, a regular polygonal shaft hole is formed in the upper end of the support, and the output end of the motor output shaft is matched with the shape of the shaft hole.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is an exploded view of a monocular panoramic camera in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the mounting of a fisheye lens in the single-view panoramic camera of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic vertical field of view of the fisheye lens of the single-view panoramic camera of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the tangential relationship between the upper and lower edges of the image area captured by the single-camera panoramic camera of FIG. 1 and the image sensor;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the upper and lower edges of the image area captured by the single-camera panoramic camera of FIG. 1 and the image sensor in a nearly tangent state;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the single-shot panoramic camera of FIG. 1;

fig. 7 is a side view of the single-shot panoramic camera of fig. 1.

Wherein the reference numerals are: the fisheye lens comprises a fisheye lens 1, an image sensor 2, a motor 3, a motor fixing seat 4, a support 5, a shell 6, a rechargeable battery 7, a base 8, a circuit board 9, a circuit board fixing seat 10, an acrylic plate 11, a lens positioning seat 12, an image area 13, a USB charging interface 14, a display screen 15, a lens hole 16, a lens mounting hole 17, a battery bin 18, a restart key 19 and a restart small hole 20.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated with respect to the orientation description, such as up, down, front, rear, left, right, etc., is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, a plurality of means are one or more, a plurality of means are two or more, and the terms greater than, less than, exceeding, etc. are understood as not including the number, and the terms greater than, less than, within, etc. are understood as including the number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless there is an explicit limitation, the words such as setting, installation, connection, etc. should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above words in combination with the specific contents of the technical solution.

Referring to fig. 1 to 7, according to the utility model discloses a monocular panoramic camera includes: the image acquisition module comprises a fisheye lens 1 and an image sensor 2 and is used for taking a picture, and the vertical field angle is larger than 180 degrees; the rotating mechanism is used for driving the image acquisition module to rotate around the vertical shaft, and the rotating axis of the image acquisition module is vertical to the optical axis of the fisheye lens 1; and the control processing module is electrically connected with the image acquisition module and the rotating mechanism and is used for controlling the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to work.

Referring to fig. 2 to 5, in the present embodiment, in order to ensure that the vertical field angle of the image capturing module can be greater than 180 degrees, it is preferable to first use the fisheye lens 1 with a field angle greater than 180 degrees, specifically, to select the fisheye lens 1 with a field angle of 200 degrees, and since the optical axis of the fisheye lens 1 can be perpendicular to the vertical axis, it can be ensured that the top field angle and the bottom field angle of the fisheye lens 1 are both 100 degrees during the rotation of the image capturing module; moreover, due to the image captured by the fisheye lens 1, a circular image area 13 is formed on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the fisheye lens 1, and only a partial area of the image area 13 falling on the image sensor 2 can be converted into image data, but a partial area not falling on the image sensor 2 cannot be collected; in order to fully utilize the image sensor 2 and ensure that the acquired image data can contain image information with a vertical field angle exceeding 180 degrees, in the present embodiment, it is preferable that the upper and lower edges of the image sensor 2 are both tangential or nearly tangential to the circular image area 13, and when the tangential is nearly so, only a small amount of the upper and lower edges of the image area 13 are allowed to be outside the image sensor 2.

In this embodiment, specifically, the image capturing device includes a setting module for inputting the number of photos to be taken when the image capturing module rotates for one circle and inputting a rotation angle between two adjacent shooting points of the image capturing module, the setting module is electrically connected with the control processing module, and the control processing module can control the rotating mechanism and the image capturing module according to a signal sent by the setting module.

Specifically, when the number of photos to be taken is input to rotate for one circle through the setting module, the setting module sends a corresponding signal to the control processing module, then the control processing module automatically calculates the number of times that the image acquisition module needs to rotate and the angle value rotated by each rotation according to the signal, and then the control processing module controls the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to cooperatively operate according to the calculated value to complete rotation shooting. Specifically, when the rotation angle between two adjacent shooting points is input through the setting module, the setting module sends a corresponding signal to the control processing module, then the control processing module automatically calculates the number of photos to be shot by the image acquisition module and the number of times of rotation according to the signal, and then the control processing module controls the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to cooperatively operate according to the calculated value to complete rotation shooting.

In this embodiment, the image capture device specifically includes a storage module, and the storage module is electrically connected to the control processing module and is used for storing the picture taken by the image capture module.

The system comprises a control processing module, a communication module and an image acquisition module, wherein the control processing module is used for acquiring a picture of the external equipment; the communication module can be a WiFi module, other communication modules such as a Bluetooth module, a 3G communication module, a 4G communication module or a 5G communication module and the like can be selected, and the WIFI module is preferably adopted; through this WIFI module, except can realizing above-mentioned photo data transmission, when shooing, still can link to each other with other hardware equipment through wiFi for other equipment can send control signal and give control processing module, sends control signal by control processing module again and gives rotary mechanism, drives fisheye lens 1 rotation and shoots the image. Moreover, according to the actual situation, the panoramic synthesis method can be selectively integrated on the control processing module, or on the mobile equipment end or the PC end; when the panoramic camera is integrated on the control processing module, the panoramic camera has the capability of directly processing to obtain panoramic photos, and when the panoramic camera is integrated on the mobile equipment end or the PC end, the panoramic photos can be synthesized only after the photo data are transmitted to the mobile equipment end or the PC end through the communication module; in this embodiment, preferably, the panorama synthesis method is integrated on the control processing module.

Referring to fig. 1, in this embodiment, specifically, the display device further includes a display screen 15 and a touch screen switch key for displaying a working state, and both the display screen 15 and the touch screen switch key are electrically connected to the control processing module; the display screen 15 is used for displaying the working state of the camera, for example, displaying whether the camera is in a photographing state or a data transmission state, and also displaying the electric quantity of a battery inside the panoramic camera, and the like; and the touch screen switch key is used for operating the on-off of the camera and the like.

Referring to fig. 1, in this embodiment, specifically, the USB charging device further includes a rechargeable battery 7 and a USB charging interface 14, and both the USB charging interface 14 and the rechargeable battery 7 are electrically connected to the control processing module. The rechargeable battery 7 is used for supplying power to the control processing module, the communication module, the storage module, the rotating mechanism, the image acquisition module and the like, and the USB charging interface 14 is used for charging the rechargeable battery 7 through an external power supply.

Referring to fig. 1, it should be noted that in this embodiment, the electronic device further includes a circuit board 9 and a circuit board fixing base 10, the control processing module, the communication module, the storage module, the setting module, the display screen 15, the touch screen switch keys and the like are all integrally disposed on the circuit board 9, an opening allowing the display screen 15 and the touch screen switch keys to be exposed is disposed at a position of the circuit board fixing base 10 corresponding to the display screen 15 and the touch screen switch keys, and an acrylic board 11 for protecting the display screen 15 and the touch screen switch keys is further mounted on the circuit board fixing base 10.

Referring to fig. 1, it should be noted that in this embodiment, the present invention further includes a base 8, a circuit board 9 is fixedly packaged on the base 8 through a circuit board fixing seat 10, a lens hole 16 is disposed at a center position of the base 8, a lens positioning seat 12 is mounted at a position of the circuit board 9 corresponding to the lens hole 16, a lens mounting hole 17 is disposed on the lens positioning seat 12, the fisheye lens 1 passes through the lens hole 16, an outgoing end of the fisheye lens is inserted into the lens mounting hole 17, and the image sensor 2 is mounted at a bottom of the lens mounting hole 17; in the present embodiment, preferably, the fisheye lens 1 is connected to the lens mounting hole 17 by a screw-thread fit, so that the distance between the fisheye lens 1 and the image sensor 2 can be adjusted during mounting. The base 8 is respectively provided with a battery compartment 18 in the position that lies in lens hole 16 both sides, and rechargeable battery 7 is total two and install respectively in the battery compartment 18 that corresponds, through above-mentioned structure also more abundant utilization space when guaranteeing that the camera can have sufficient duration, reduces the size of a dimension of camera for the camera is more small and exquisite.

Referring to fig. 1, in this embodiment, in order to protect the components inside the camera and meet the requirements of dust prevention, water prevention, and the like, the digital camera further includes a housing 6, a control processing module, a rotating mechanism, an image acquisition module, and the like are all installed in the housing 6, and meanwhile, in order to normally complete image acquisition, a light incident end of the fisheye lens 1 is exposed outside the housing 6; specifically, the housing 6 is covered on the outer side of the base 8, and is opened at a position corresponding to the fisheye lens 1 to allow the incident end of the fisheye lens 1 to be exposed to the outside.

Referring to fig. 1 to 7, in this embodiment, a restart key 19 for restarting the monocular panoramic camera is further included, the restart key 19 is disposed inside the casing 6 and electrically connected to the control processing module, a restart pinhole 20 is disposed at a position of the casing 6 corresponding to the restart key 19, when the running time of the camera is too long, the restart key 19 can be used to restart and recover the running speed of the camera, or when the camera has a fault such as a dead halt, the restart key 19 can be used to restart and recover the normal operation. Specifically, the restart key 19 is disposed on the circuit board 9 and at an edge of the circuit board 9, an accommodating opening for accommodating the restart key 19 is disposed at an edge of the base 8, and the restart pinhole 20 on the housing 6 is disposed at a position of the accommodating opening and directly faces the restart key 19.

Referring to fig. 1, 6 and 7, in this embodiment, the fisheye lens further includes a bracket 5 disposed below the housing 6, the rotating mechanism includes a vertically disposed motor 3, an output shaft of the motor 3 is connected to the bracket 5, and the motor 3 preferably adopts a stepping motor or a reduction motor, which can control the rotation speed of the fisheye lens 1. Specifically, the motor holding tank has been seted up to the position that base 8 corresponds support 5, and motor 3 installs in the motor holding tank, still installs motor fixing base 4 on the base 8 to fix the motor on base 8.

Specifically, a regular polygonal shaft hole is formed in the upper end of the support 5, the output end of the output shaft of the motor 3 is matched with the shape of the shaft hole, the upper end of the support 5 extends into the shell 6, and the output end of the output shaft of the motor 3 is inserted into the shaft hole.

While the invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A monocular panoramic camera, comprising:

the image acquisition module comprises a fisheye lens and an image sensor and is used for shooting a picture, and the vertical field angle is larger than 180 degrees;

the rotating mechanism is used for driving the image acquisition module to rotate around a vertical shaft, and the rotating shaft of the image acquisition module is vertical to the optical axis of the fisheye lens;

and the control processing module is electrically connected with the image acquisition module and the rotating mechanism and is used for controlling the rotating mechanism and the image acquisition module to work.

2. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein the monocular panoramic camera comprises a setting module for inputting the number of pictures to be taken by the image capturing module for one rotation and/or inputting the rotation angle between two adjacent shooting points of the image capturing module, the setting module is electrically connected to the control processing module, and the control processing module can control the rotating mechanism and the image capturing module according to a signal sent by the setting module.

3. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 1, comprising a storage module electrically connected to the control processing module for storing the pictures taken by the image capturing module.

4. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 1, comprising a communication module, wherein the communication module is electrically connected to the control processing module and is configured to send the picture taken by the image capturing module to an external device.

5. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 1, comprising a display screen for displaying the working state and a touch screen switch button, wherein the display screen and the touch screen switch button are both electrically connected with the control processing module.

6. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery and a USB charging interface, wherein the USB charging interface and the rechargeable battery are electrically connected to the control processing module.

7. The monocular panoramic camera according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a housing, wherein the control processing module, the rotating mechanism and the image capturing module are all mounted in the housing, and a light incident end of the fisheye lens is exposed outside the housing.

8. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 7, further comprising a restart key for restarting the monocular panoramic camera, wherein the restart key is disposed inside the housing and electrically connected to the control processing module, and a restart eyelet is disposed at a position of the housing corresponding to the restart key.

9. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 7, further comprising a bracket disposed below the housing, wherein the rotating mechanism comprises a vertically disposed motor, and an output shaft of the motor is connected to the bracket.

10. The monocular panoramic camera of claim 9, wherein a regular polygonal shaft hole is provided at an upper end of the bracket, and an output end of the motor output shaft is adapted to the shape of the shaft hole.