CN114554102B

CN114554102B - Panoramic camera

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Publication number: CN114554102B
Application number: CN202210436172.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 祁斌; 王凌鹏; 苏景堃
Original assignee: Zhongxin Fangzhi Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Zhongxin Fangzhi Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-25
Filing date: 2022-04-25
Publication date: 2022-07-12
Anticipated expiration: 2042-04-25
Also published as: CN114554102A

Abstract

The invention provides a panoramic camera, which belongs to the field of panoramic camera equipment and comprises a shell and a camera part, wherein the camera part is arranged on the shell and comprises cameras and a driving part, the driving part is arranged in the shell, the driving part is connected with eight cameras, seven of the cameras are arranged on the shell in an annular array mode, the eighth camera is arranged in the center of the bottom of the shell, and the driving part drives all the cameras to be close to each other and simultaneously enables the seven cameras to synchronously swing downwards. The panoramic camera can flexibly adjust the mounting position of each camera to match various monitoring requirements.

Description

Panoramic camera

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of panoramic camera equipment, in particular to a panoramic camera.

Background

Panoramic photography is an image with a visual angle exceeding the normal visual angle of a person, and panoramic is a more intuitive and vivid image generated by mapping surrounding scenes in a certain geometrical relationship. The existing panoramic camera equipment is a lot and is applied to multiple fields of automobiles, monitoring, image analysis and the like, the panoramic camera equipment in different fields has respective characteristics, but most of the panoramic camera equipment takes the method that images captured by a plurality of cameras are combined into a complete image as an implementation method. Most of the existing panoramic camera equipment have different installation angles according to different monitoring shooting requirements, a camera is required to achieve a proper monitoring visual field or a proper position during actual installation, the existing panoramic camera does not have the performance, if the existing panoramic camera is assembled and delivered from a factory or installed, a difference pool exists slightly, the performance of panoramic camera can be greatly influenced, and an ordinary user cannot easily realize adjustment.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problem that the panoramic camera equipment in the prior art cannot flexibly adjust the installation angle of the camera to adapt to specific camera shooting requirements.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the panoramic camera comprises a shell and a camera shooting component, wherein the camera shooting component is arranged on the shell and comprises cameras and a driving component, the driving component is arranged in the shell and connected with eight cameras, seven cameras are arranged on the shell in an annular array mode, the eighth camera is arranged in the center of the bottom of the shell, and the driving component drives all the cameras to move close to each other and simultaneously drives the seven cameras to synchronously swing downwards.

Wherein: the driving part comprises a central tube, an upper stud, a threaded sleeve, connecting rods, a middle stud, a conical block, a sliding rod and a lower stud, the upper stud is installed in a shaft hole of the central tube in a rotating fit mode so that the upper stud can rotate around the axis of the upper stud in the central tube in situ, the threaded sleeve is sleeved on the upper stud in a threaded fit mode, the threaded sleeve can vertically move in the central tube and cannot be installed and matched in a rotating mode, the outer wall of the threaded sleeve is hinged with 7 connecting rods, and one end, extending out of the central tube, of each connecting rod is hinged with one camera.

The upper end of the middle stud is installed at the bottom end of the upper stud in a threaded fit manner, the large end of the conical block faces upwards, the conical block can vertically move in the central tube and cannot be installed and matched in a rotating manner, one end of the sliding rod is in smooth contact with the conical surface of the conical block, and the other end of the sliding rod extends out of the central tube to support and push the hinged part of the camera and the connecting rod; the lower stud penetrates through the bottom of the central tube in a threaded fit manner, the upper end of the lower stud is positioned in the central tube and is abutted against the bottom end of the conical block, and the lower end of the lower stud is fixedly connected with the eighth camera; when the upper stud rotates clockwise, the threaded sleeve moves upwards vertically to drive all the connecting rods to swing downwards, and meanwhile, the middle stud also moves upwards to drive all the sliding rods to approach each other through the conical block, so that seven cameras are driven to swing downwards to approach each other.

Particularly, a cylinder is fixedly connected to the small end of the conical block, a guide block is fixedly connected to the surface of the cylinder and the surface of the threaded sleeve, a guide groove is formed in the inner wall of the central tube along the axial direction of the central tube, and the guide block is installed in the guide groove in a sliding fit mode.

It has a cylinder chamber towards outside protrusion on the pipe wall of center tube, the part that the slide bar is located the cylinder intracavity has a location shaft shoulder, the location shaft shoulder with the cylinder chamber is by installing the extension spring between the chamber wall of one side in the center tube, the extension spring has a pulling force towards the center tube inboard to the location shaft shoulder all the time. The extension spring is cylindrical spring, and the extension spring cup joints coaxially on the slide bar, the slide bar with the one end of toper piece surface contact is the hemisphere.

The upper stud is provided with two shaft rings, the inner wall of the central tube is coaxially and fixedly connected with a supporting ring, and the two shaft rings are respectively in smooth contact with the inner top wall of the shaft hole of the central tube and the upper end surface of the supporting ring. The top end of the upper stud extends out of the top of the central tube, and a hexagonal concave hole for inserting an inner hexagonal wrench is formed in the top end of the upper stud.

One end of the sliding rod, which is matched with the hinged part, is provided with a slot, a rubber pad is embedded in the slot, and the section of the rubber pad is of an n-shaped structure. The shell is provided with a plurality of mounting holes, the inner wall of each mounting hole for mounting the seven cameras is also provided with a spherical cambered surface, a sponge body is filled between the two spherical cambered surfaces, the sponge body is of a spherical shell structure, and the spherical centers of the two spherical cambered surfaces and the spherical shell are the hinging circle centers of the hinging parts.

The shell comprises an upper cover body and a lower cover body, the upper cover body and the lower cover body are connected into a whole through screws, and all cameras are installed on the lower cover body in a rotating fit mode.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects: the invention adopts seven cameras arranged in an annular array and an eighth camera positioned in the center of the bottom to capture images of the surrounding environment together, and the cameras realize the adjustment and installation of all the cameras through a simple mechanical structure, can adjust the installation positions of all the cameras in a matching way, such as the degree of gathering each other and the pitching installation angles of the seven surrounding cameras, and the like, and realize the expansion or reduction of the monitoring range so as to better adapt to the working requirements of different heights and different monitoring ranges.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts:

FIGS. 1-2 are schematic structural diagrams illustrating the appearance of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the drive components within the housing;

FIG. 4 is an axial cross-sectional view of the center tube;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the mounting structure in which seven cameras are within the housing;

FIG. 6 is a view showing the installation structure of a slide bar provided with a tension spring on a center tube;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of another mounting configuration in which seven cameras are provided;

FIG. 8 is a partial axial cross-sectional view of the slide bar;

fig. 9 is a schematic end view of the sliding rod with a rubber pad.

The device comprises a shell-1, an upper cover-101, a lower cover-102, a central tube-2, an upper stud-3, a threaded sleeve-4, a connecting rod-5, seven cameras-6, a guide block-7, a support ring-8, a collar-9, a middle stud-10, a conical block-11, a cylinder-12, a lower stud-13, a sliding rod-14, an eighth camera-15, a guide groove-16, a cylindrical cavity-17, a positioning shaft shoulder-18, a tension spring-19, a rubber pad-20, an installation body-21 and a sponge body-22.

Detailed Description

In order that the technical means, the characteristics of creation, the objects achieved and the functions achieved by the present invention will be more clearly understood and readily appreciated, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to like or similar elements or elements having like or similar functions throughout, and the embodiments described below by referring to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be illustrative of the present invention and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The present embodiment introduces a panoramic camera, the main structure of which includes a housing 1 and a camera component, the camera component is mounted on the housing 1, as shown in fig. 1-2, the housing 1 includes an upper cover 101 and a lower cover 102, the upper cover and the lower cover can be connected together by a screw or other matching structure, and all cameras are mounted on the lower cover 102, and can be mounted on the housing 1 in a rotating fit manner as required, that is, the cameras can rotate on the housing 1 by a certain angle as required. In actual manufacturing, the camera shooting component comprises cameras and a driving component, wherein the driving component is installed in the shell 1 and is connected with eight cameras, seven cameras are installed on the shell 1 in an annular array mode, the eighth camera 15 is installed in the center of the bottom of the shell 1, and the driving component drives all the cameras to close to each other and simultaneously enables the seven cameras to synchronously swing downwards. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the driving means here may include a central tube 2, an upper stud 3, a threaded sleeve 4, a connecting rod 5, a middle stud 10, a conical block 11, a sliding rod 14, a lower stud 13, etc., wherein the upper stud 3 is rotatably fitted in the shaft hole of the central tube 2, so that the upper stud 3 can rotate in place in the central tube 2 about its axis, i.e., the upper stud 3 only rotates and cannot move axially. The threaded sleeve 4 is sleeved on the upper stud 3 in a threaded fit manner, the threaded sleeve 4 can vertically move in the central tube 2 and can not be rotatably installed and matched, the outer wall of the threaded sleeve 4 is hinged with 7 connecting rods 5, one end of each connecting rod 5 extending out of the central tube 2 is hinged with one camera, a hole in the wall of the central tube 2 for the connecting rod 5 to extend out can be processed into a rectangular strip hole, and in practice, the processing length of the strip hole is slightly smaller, in practice, the angle adjustment range of the camera cannot be too large, because the installation height of the panoramic camera is usually higher, the camera slightly moves a little distance or angle, and the change amount reflecting the shooting visual field is already large, the drawing size of the corresponding rectangular strip hole on the central tube 2 in the drawing of the specification is only for obviously reflecting the structure and is not the proportion of the actual size, and similarly, the drawing proportion of the gap for installing the camera on the shell 1 is also the same.

Meanwhile, the upper end of the middle stud 10 of the embodiment is installed at the bottom end of the upper stud 3 in a threaded fit manner, that is, the center of the bottom end of the upper stud 3 is coaxially provided with a threaded hole for the middle stud 10 to be screwed in and installed in a fit manner, while the large end of the conical block 11 faces upwards and the conical block 11 can vertically move in the central tube 2 and can not be installed and matched in a rotatable manner, so that when the upper stud 3 rotates, the middle stud 10 can not rotate but can axially move, correspondingly, one end of the sliding rod 14 is in smooth contact with the conical surface of the conical block 11, and the other end of the sliding rod extends out of the central tube 2 and supportingly pushes the hinge part of the camera and the connecting rod 5, so that when the middle stud 10 axially moves, the conical block 11 also axially moves, thereby changing the rod length value of the sliding rod 14 extending out of the central tube 2. In addition, the lower stud 13 of this embodiment runs through the tube bottom of center tube 2 with screw-thread fit, lower stud 13 upper end be located the center tube 2 and with the conflict of toper piece 11 bottom meets, its lower extreme with eighth camera 15 rigid coupling to screw down stud 13, when realizing the fixed mounting of eighth camera 15, realize the axial top tight to lower stud 13, thereby make three upper, middle, lower stud axial fixity, realize the installation of the position of each camera fixed, thereby make seven cameras on every side and eight camera 15 of shell 1 bottom central authorities when drawing close each other and keeping away from, form the complete shooting field of vision of the multi-angle in the established environment together, it is very ingenious and succinct easy to do structurally.

In specific use, when the upper stud 3 rotates clockwise, the threaded sleeve 4 moves up vertically to drive all the connecting rods 5 to swing downwards, and meanwhile, correspondingly, the middle stud 10 also moves up to drive all the sliding rods 14 to approach each other through the conical block 11, because the large end of the conical block 11 faces up, and when the connecting rod 5 swings downwards, the sliding rod 14 is also pushed to slide axially towards the inside of the central tube 2, and a very important relationship is that: the sliding amount of the sliding rod 14 towards the central tube 2 is just matched with the inclination of the conical surface of the conical block 11, so that seven cameras are driven to swing downwards to be close to each other and can be kept firm and stable, and another very important relationship is that: after the seven cameras are adjusted in place, the lower stud 13 of the eighth camera 15 moves upwards to compress the middle stud 10 or compress the displacement of the bottom end of the conical block 11, so that the eighth camera 15 and the seven cameras adjusted in place at the moment form a complete new all-dimensional monitoring view, and finally, the positions of all the cameras are fixed.

As a specific implementation detail, as shown in fig. 3, a column 12 is fixedly connected to the small end of the conical block 11, a guide block 7 is fixedly connected to the surfaces of the column 12 and the threaded sleeve 4, a guide groove 16 is formed on the inner wall of the central tube 2 along the axial direction thereof, and the guide block 7 is slidably fitted in the guide groove 16 to guide the conical block 11 or the threaded sleeve 4 to move axially. In order to improve the installation stability of the sliding rod 14, in particular, as shown in fig. 6, a cylindrical cavity 17 protrudes towards the outside from the tube wall of the central tube 2, the part of the sliding rod 14 located in the cylindrical cavity 17 is provided with a positioning shoulder 18, a tension spring 19 is installed between the positioning shoulder 18 and the cavity wall of the cylindrical cavity 17 on the inner side of the central tube 2, the tension spring 19 always has a pulling force towards the inner side of the central tube 2 on the positioning shoulder 18, pre-tightening of the sliding rod 14 in the movement process is realized, and the position of the camera is controlled more stably by matching with the pressing force of the gravity of the camera on the sliding rod 14. Of course, the panoramic camera of the embodiment is suitable for monitoring in general occasions, and is not recommended to be used for monitoring in a scene with strong wind.

The tension spring 19 may be a cylindrical spring, the tension spring 19 is coaxially sleeved on the sliding rod 14, and one end of the sliding rod 14, which is in surface contact with the conical block 11, is hemispherical, so as to reduce friction. Two shaft rings 9 are arranged on the upper stud 3, a supporting ring 8 is coaxially and fixedly connected to the inner wall of the central tube 2, and the two shaft rings 9 are respectively in smooth contact with the inner top wall of the shaft hole of the central tube 2 and the upper end surface of the supporting ring 8, so that the rotating fit installation of the upper stud 3 is better realized. The top of center tube 2 is stretched out on 3 tops of last double-screw bolts, and offers the hexagonal shrinkage pool that supplies interior hexagonal spanner to insert on the top of last double-screw bolt 3 to the regulation camera.

In order to make the camera more stable to mount and reduce vibration, as shown in fig. 8-9, a slot is formed at one end of the sliding rod 14, which is engaged with the hinge portion, and a rubber pad 20 is embedded in the slot, and the cross section of the rubber pad 20 is n-shaped.

Referring to fig. 7, seven cameras are respectively embedded in respective installation bodies 21, the outer surface of each installation body 21 is a spherical arc surface, the inner wall of an installation hole of the housing 1 for installing the seven cameras is also a spherical arc surface, a sponge body 22 is filled between the two spherical arc surfaces, the sponge body 22 is a spherical shell structure, and the spherical centers of the two spherical arc surfaces and the spherical shell are the hinging circle centers of the hinging parts, so that the cameras can keep relative sealing contact with the housing 1 under the action of the sponge body 22 when rotating in the actual lower range, and the stability and reliability of installation are improved.

Finally, the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and not for limiting, although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications or equivalent substitutions may be made to the technical solutions of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present invention, and all of them should be covered in the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A panoramic camera comprises a shell (1) and a camera part, wherein the camera part is arranged on the shell (1), and is characterized in that the camera part comprises cameras and a driving part, the driving part is arranged in the shell (1), the driving part is connected with eight cameras, seven cameras are arranged on the shell (1) in an annular array manner, an eighth camera (15) is arranged in the center of the bottom of the shell (1), and the driving part drives all the cameras to close to each other and simultaneously synchronously swing down;

the driving part comprises a central pipe (2), an upper stud (3), a thread bushing (4), a connecting rod (5), a middle stud (10), a conical block (11), a sliding rod (14) and a lower stud (13), wherein,

the upper stud (3) is rotatably installed in a shaft hole of the central tube (2) in a matching manner, so that the upper stud (3) can rotate in situ around the axis of the upper stud in the central tube (2), the threaded sleeve (4) is sleeved on the upper stud (3) in a threaded matching manner, the threaded sleeve (4) can vertically move in the central tube (2) and cannot be rotatably installed and matched, the outer wall of the threaded sleeve (4) is hinged with 7 connecting rods (5), and one end of each connecting rod (5), which extends out of the central tube (2), is hinged with one camera;

the upper end of the middle stud (10) is installed at the bottom end of the upper stud (3) in a threaded fit manner, the large end of the conical block (11) faces upwards, the conical block (11) can vertically move in the central tube (2) and can be installed and matched in a non-rotatable manner, one end of the sliding rod (14) is in smooth contact with the conical surface of the conical block (11), and the other end of the sliding rod extends out of the central tube (2) to support and push the hinge part of the camera and the connecting rod (5);

the lower stud (13) penetrates through the bottom of the central tube (2) in a threaded fit manner, the upper end of the lower stud (13) is positioned in the central tube (2) and is abutted against the bottom end of the conical block (11), and the lower end of the lower stud is fixedly connected with the eighth camera (15);

when the upper stud (3) rotates clockwise, the threaded sleeve (4) vertically moves upwards to drive all the connecting rods (5) to swing downwards, and meanwhile, the middle stud (10) also moves upwards to drive all the sliding rods (14) to approach each other through the conical block (11), so that the seven cameras are driven to swing downwards to approach each other.

2. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: cylinder (12) are connected firmly to the tip of toper piece (11) cylinder (12) with the equal rigid coupling in surface of thread bush (4) has a guide block (7), seted up one guide way (16) along its axial on the inner wall of center tube (2), install in guide way (16) guide block (7) sliding fit.

3. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: go to outside protrusion it and have a cylinder chamber (17) on the pipe wall of center tube (2), the part that slide bar (14) are located cylinder chamber (17) has a location shaft shoulder (18), location shaft shoulder (18) with cylinder chamber (17) are leaned on and are installed extension spring (19) between the chamber wall of one side in center tube (2), extension spring (19) have one towards the inboard pulling force of center tube (2) to location shaft shoulder (18) all the time.

4. The panoramic camera of claim 3, wherein: extension spring (19) are cylindrical spring, and extension spring (19) coaxial cup joints slide bar (14) are last, slide bar (14) with the one end of toper piece (11) surface contact is the hemisphere.

5. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: two shaft rings (9) are arranged on the upper stud (3), a supporting ring (8) is coaxially and fixedly connected to the inner wall of the central tube (2), and the two shaft rings (9) are respectively in smooth contact with the inner top wall of the shaft hole of the central tube (2) and the upper end face of the supporting ring (8).

6. The panoramic camera of claim 5, wherein: go up double-screw bolt (3) top and stretch out the top of center tube (2), and offer the hexagonal shrinkage pool that supplies interior hexagonal spanner to insert on the top of last double-screw bolt (3).

7. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: one end of the sliding rod (14) matched with the hinged part is provided with a slot, a rubber pad (20) is embedded in the slot, and the section of the rubber pad (20) is of an n-shaped structure.

8. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: the seven cameras are respectively embedded in the respective installation bodies (21), the outer surfaces of the installation bodies (21) are spherical cambered surfaces, the inner walls of installation holes for installing the seven cameras in the shell (1) are also spherical cambered surfaces, a sponge body (22) is filled between the two spherical cambered surfaces, the sponge body (22) is in a spherical shell structure, and the spherical centers of the two spherical cambered surfaces and the spherical shell are the hinged circle centers of the hinged parts.

9. The panoramic camera of claim 1, wherein: the shell (1) comprises an upper cover body and a lower cover body (102), the upper cover body and the lower cover body are connected into a whole through screws, and all cameras are installed on the lower cover body (102) in a rotating fit mode.