JP2021044753A - Photographic system - Google Patents

Abstract

To solve the problem in which, when multiple groups of people existing in multiple photographic positions can be photographed, it is not possible to specify how far a range of people should be photographed as the same group, and a photographic angle of view cannot be determined.SOLUTION: Either by using multiple digital cameras with different angles of view and a motorized head, or by using a digital camera equipped with an imaging element capable of capturing an ultra-high resolution image, in addition to making it possible to photograph multiple people and multiple groups, it also makes it possible to determine the angle of view for photographing by providing means for determining a group.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a photographing system for photographing an image.

In recent years, changes have been seen in the method of taking self-portrait images. Conventionally, a method has been adopted in which the camera is held with one hand and the arm holding the camera is extended as much as possible so that a wide-angle self-portrait image can be taken as much as possible. However, unless a very wide-angle lens is used, it is difficult to fit a plurality of people in one shooting angle of view.

On the other hand, with the release of an accessory called a selfie stick, the shooting style has changed significantly. A selfie stick is an accessory that enables you to take a wider-angle selfie stick by attaching a camera to the tip of the stick and using it instead of the arm of the conventional method. This makes it easy to fit a plurality of people in one shooting angle of view.

Furthermore, these days, by remotely controlling a camera installed in a remote location from a terminal such as a mobile phone without using one's own camera, it is possible to take a special self-portrait image that cannot be obtained by normal shooting. The system that made it possible is drawing attention.

For example, there is a system that enables the taking of self-portrait images including the background of an ultra-wide area. Stand at the designated shooting spot, access the WEB site from your mobile phone, and issue a shooting request. Along with this, a camera installed at a distance of 100 m or more takes a wide-area, high-resolution photo that cannot be obtained by taking a selfie image using your own arm or taking a selfie stick. To do. Based on the still image, it is a system that generates a moving image that zooms out to an ultra-wide area image from the enlarged image of the person who issued the shooting request, and sends the moving image by e-mail.

Further, Patent Document 1 describes a technique relating to a means for acquiring information on a subject in remote shooting and a means for associating the information with an arbitrary position on a shooting screen.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2008-252930

Here, the conventional system that enables the shooting of a self-portrait image from a remote place has a problem that the shooting spot is limited and the shooting cannot be performed without standing there. Along with this, there is also a problem that multiple people and multiple groups cannot shoot at the same time.

Further, if the above-mentioned problems are solved and it is possible to shoot a plurality of groups existing at a plurality of shooting positions, it is not possible to specify the range of people to be shot as the same group, and the shooting angle of view cannot be determined. The problem also arises.

In order to solve the above problems, the photographing system according to the present invention
Shooting means for shooting the subject,
A shooting request receiving means for accepting a shooting request issued to the shooting means, and
The shooting request issuing position specifying means for specifying from which position the shooting request received by the shooting request receiving means was issued, and the shooting request issuing position specifying means.
With a shooting device equipped with
In a shooting system composed of terminals provided with a shooting request issuing means for issuing a shooting request to the shooting device.
When a shooting request is received from a plurality of terminals, the shooting schedule determination means for determining the shooting schedule based on the timing and position information at which the shooting request is issued is provided.

According to the photographing system according to the present invention, a plurality of people or a plurality of groups can photograph at the same time in a system capable of photographing a self-portrait image from a remote place.

The figure for demonstrating the structure of the photographing system which concerns on this embodiment. The figure for demonstrating the digital camera configuration example (1) of the photographing system which concerns on this embodiment. The figure for demonstrating the digital camera configuration example (2) of the photographing system which concerns on this embodiment. The figure for demonstrating the method of specifying the position of the photography requester in the photography system which concerns on this embodiment. The figure for demonstrating the operation timing of the electric pan head, the shooting request timing from each group, the image capture timing, and the actual shooting timing of each group in the configuration example of FIG. The figure for demonstrating the method of determining the shooting angle of view in the shooting system which concerns on this embodiment, that is, the first method of determining from where to where people are in the same group. The figure for demonstrating the method of determining the shooting angle of view in the shooting system which concerns on this embodiment, that is, the second method of determining from where to where people are in the same group. The figure for demonstrating an example of the method of specifying the position of a photography requester in the photography system which concerns on this embodiment. The figure for demonstrating an example of the method of specifying the position of a photography requester in the photography system which concerns on this embodiment. Diagram for explaining the acquired group image Diagram to illustrate application software

Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The present invention is not limited to the present embodiment, and the responsibility division between the camera and the server may be different interfaces, and the camera body has a network communication means and a server function so that a server is not required. May be.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a functional configuration of a photographing system according to the invention of the present application.

This photographing system is composed of a digital camera 100 and a server 150. One or more of each functional block may be realized by hardware such as an ASIC or a programmable logic array (PLA), or may be realized by a programmable processor such as a CPU or MPU executing software. .. It may also be realized by a combination of software and hardware. Therefore, in the following description, the same hardware can be realized as the main body even if different functional blocks are described as the main body of operation.

The digital camera 100 is an exterior connected to the server 150, and the image output unit 121 and the camera-side data communication unit 122 are exposed on the surface of the digital camera 100.

The lens 101 is a photographing lens composed of a plurality of lens groups, includes a focus lens, a zoom lens, and a shift lens inside, and also includes an aperture.

The image pickup device 102 has a configuration in which a plurality of pixels having a photoelectric conversion element are arranged in a two-dimensional manner. The image sensor 102 photoelectrically converts the subject optical image imaged by the lens 101 with each pixel, further analog-digitally converts it with an A / D conversion circuit, and outputs an image signal (RAW image data) for each pixel. ..

The memory I / F unit 116 writes the RAW image data for all pixels output from the image sensor 102 to the memory 117, and reads the RAW image data held in the memory 117 and outputs the RAW image data to the image processing unit 118.

The memory 117 is a volatile storage medium that stores RAW image data for all pixels of an arbitrary frame.

The image processing unit 118 performs image processing for correcting the level difference caused by the image sensor 102 on the RAW image data for all pixels sent from the memory I / F unit 116. For example, the pixels in the OB region are used to correct the level of the pixels in the effective region, and the defective pixels are corrected by using the surrounding pixels. In addition, each process such as correction for vignetting, color correction, contour enhancement, noise removal, gamma correction, debayer, and compression is performed. In addition, electronic vibration isolation processing is also performed so that the motion vector of the subject is calculated by the camera microcomputer 140 with reference to the image data output from the image processing unit 118 and the image blur is canceled based on the calculated motion vector. Do. When the image processing unit 118 performs the above processing on the RAW image data input from the image sensor 102, the image processing unit 118 outputs the corrected image data to the image output unit 121.

The camera microcomputer 140 includes a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and the CPU controls the entire operation of the digital video camera by expanding and executing a program stored in the ROM in a work area of the RAM. Further, the camera microcomputer 140 realizes each process of the present embodiment described later by executing the program stored in the ROM. The RAM develops constants, variables, programs read from the ROM, and the like for the operation of the camera microcomputer 140.

The image pickup control unit 109 is a block for exposure control, and controls the gain and shutter speed of the image pickup element 102. Control is performed by the camera microcomputer 140 based on the result of calculating the brightness level of the image data output by the image processing unit 118 by the camera microcomputer 140 or based on the operation parameters manually set by the photographer.

The lens control unit 111 is a block for aperture control, focus lens control, zoom lens control, and optical anti-vibration control using a shift lens of the lens 101.

In the focus lens control, the camera microcomputer 140 calculates the focus focusing information with reference to the image data output from the image processing unit 118, and the lens control unit 111 controls the focus lens inside the lens 101 based on the calculated focus information. To do. It is also possible to set an AF frame in a partial area of image data with the camera microcomputer 140 and calculate focus focusing information based only on the subject in the AF frame.

In the anti-vibration control, the camera microcomputer 140 calculates the motion vector of the subject with reference to the image data output from the image processing unit 118. Then, based on the calculated motion vector, an optical vibration isolation process is performed to control the shift lens inside the lens 101 so as to cancel the image blur.

The image output unit 121 resizes the video data from the image processing unit 118, performs signal conversion suitable for the standard, and adds a control signal. Then, the image is output to a server connected to the outside via a terminal for externally outputting the image data (for example, an SDI terminal or an HDMI (registered trademark) terminal).

The camera-side data communication unit 122 communicates with the server-side data communication unit 152. For example, a wireless / wired LAN interface, LANC (registered trademark), RS-422, etc. correspond. In addition to being able to receive instructions corresponding to the operation of the digital camera 100 from the outside, it is also possible to receive setting change information of the digital camera 100. It is also possible to transmit the information of the digital camera 100 to a server connected to the outside.

The server 150 is an exterior connected to the digital camera 100, and the image input unit 151 and the server-side data communication unit 152 are exposed on the surface of the server 150.

The image input unit 151 outputs an image to the server main body microcomputer 153 via a terminal (for example, an SDI terminal or an HDMI (registered trademark) terminal) that receives image data transmitted from the digital camera 100.

The server-side data communication unit 152 communicates with the camera-side data communication unit 122. For example, a wireless / wired LAN interface, LANC (registered trademark), RS-422, etc. correspond. In addition to being able to transmit instructions corresponding to the operation of the digital camera 100, it is also possible to transmit setting change information of the digital camera 100. It is also possible to receive information on the digital camera 100.

The server main body microcomputer 153 includes a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and the CPU controls the operation of the entire photographing system by expanding and executing the program stored in the ROM in the work area of the RAM. Further, the server main body microcomputer 153 realizes each process of the present embodiment described later by executing the program stored in the ROM. The RAM develops constants, variables, programs read from the ROM, etc. for the operation of the server main body microcomputer 153. In particular, the server main body microcomputer 153 can receive a shooting request issued from an external mobile terminal via the Internet, wireless communication, or the like. Further, the image taken by the digital camera 100 can be referred to by an external mobile terminal. For example, it may be possible to refer to it by uploading it to the Internet and accessing it from an external mobile terminal, or it may be possible to directly send image data to the external mobile terminal. Further, the server main body microcomputer 153 also has a function of specifying the position where the shooting request is issued and a function of determining whether the shooting request is issued by an individual or a group. It also has a function of determining a shooting schedule when a plurality of shooting requests are received.

(Example 1)
In the first embodiment, an explanation will be given regarding an example of solving the initial problem, that is, "the shooting spot is limited, and it is not possible to shoot without standing there, and it is not possible for a plurality of people or a plurality of groups to shoot at the same time". Do.

First, a long-distance shooting system including at least two digital cameras capable of shooting wide-angle images and a digital camera capable of shooting telephoto images will be described.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a digital camera configuration of the photographing system according to the present embodiment.

One digital camera that can shoot a wide angle including surrounding buildings and scenery (wide-angle camera A), and one telephoto digital camera that can shoot a magnified image of the requester who requested the shooting (telephoto camera C) There are three medium-telephoto digital cameras in between, one (medium-telephoto camera B). Further, it is assumed that the telephoto camera C is installed on an electric pan head and can be changed to an arbitrary shooting angle of view. Although not shown here, it is assumed that each camera is connected to a server for performing UI processing and image processing for remote shooting.

FIG. 2- (A) shows a state in which the shooting angle of view of the telephoto camera C is set to group 1 by controlling the attached electric pan head. The output image from the wide-angle camera A is an ultra-wide-angle image including groups 1 to 3, and it is possible to take a picture including surrounding buildings and scenery. The output image from the medium telephoto camera B has an angle of view that just includes groups 1 to 3. The output image from the telephoto camera C is set to be a magnified image of group 1. By executing shooting in this state, it is possible to shoot images of three types of angles of view from wide-angle to telephoto in Group 1 with high image quality. In addition, by synthesizing the image of the wide-angle camera A, the image of the medium telephoto camera B, and the image of the telephoto camera C, a moving image that zooms out to an ultra-wide area image is generated from the enlarged image of the person in group 1 who issued the shooting request. can do.

FIG. 2- (B) shows a state in which the shooting angle of view of the telephoto camera C is set to group 2 by controlling the attached electric pan head, and FIG. 2- (C) shows the telephoto camera. It shows a state in which the shooting angle of view of C is set to group 3 by controlling the attached electric pan head.

As described above, in this embodiment, the telephoto camera C can be changed to an arbitrary shooting angle of view by attaching an electric pan head. This makes it possible to shoot three groups in different locations.

Next, a long-distance shooting system when a digital camera equipped with an ultra-high pixel image sensor capable of capturing an ultra-high resolution image will be described.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a digital camera configuration of the photographing system according to the present embodiment.

It is configured as one digital camera (ultra-high resolution camera D) equipped with an ultra-high pixel image sensor that can shoot a wide angle including surrounding buildings and scenery. Unlike the example in FIG. 2, the electric pan head is not installed. Although not shown here, it is assumed that each camera is connected to a server for performing UI processing and image processing for remote shooting.

The subject is common to FIG. 2, and the output image from the ultra-high resolution camera D is the same as the wide-angle camera A in FIG. 2, and is an ultra-wide-angle image including groups 1 to 3, and the surrounding buildings and scenery. It is possible to shoot including. Unlike the wide-angle camera A in FIG. 2, the ultra-high resolution camera D is equipped with an ultra-high pixel image sensor, so that a high-quality image can be obtained even if the obtained image is trimmed and subjected to electronic enlargement processing. It becomes possible. That is, the image of the angle of view obtained from the medium telephoto camera B and the telephoto camera C in FIG. 2 can be generated by digital processing in the configuration example of FIG.

As described above, in this embodiment, by using a digital camera equipped with an ultra-high pixel image sensor capable of capturing an ultra-high resolution image, high image quality can be obtained even after trimming and electronic enlargement processing. The configuration is such that it can be maintained. This makes it possible to shoot three groups in different locations.

As described above, by adopting either a configuration consisting of multiple digital cameras with different angles of view and an electric pan head, or a configuration consisting of a digital camera equipped with an image sensor capable of capturing ultra-high resolution images, the initial configuration was adopted. It is possible to solve the problem that "the shooting spot is limited and it is not possible to shoot without standing there, and it is not possible for multiple people or multiple groups to shoot at the same time". In particular, in the configuration example of FIG. 3, since it is only necessary to process a plurality of groups of images from one image by digital processing, complete simultaneous shooting is possible.

Next, a method of specifying the position of the photographer, which is an issue in this embodiment, will be described.

In FIG. 2, the position of the photographer is required to determine the control position of the electric pan head for changing the angle of view of the telephoto camera C, and in FIG. 3, the image is taken by the ultra-high resolution camera D. It is necessary to determine the trimming position for the image.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a method of specifying the position of a shooting requester in the shooting system according to the present embodiment. Here, this embodiment will be described with reference to the configuration example of FIG.

First of all, the shooting requester A performs remote shooting at the shooting point, for example, by using an application for remote shooting or accessing a Web service provided by the server for remote shooting. Start.

In step (1), the user takes a picture of his / her face with his / her mobile terminal according to the remote shooting procedure of the application or the Web service.

Next, in step (2), the photographed face image is transmitted to the server and a photograph request is made.

In step (3), the server searches for the face image received from the shooting requester A with respect to the high-resolution image received from the camera, and determines the trimming position.

In step (4), the user is notified of the shooting timing by transmitting a shooting countdown to the terminal of the shooting requester.

In step (5), the image generated by the server is distributed to the shooting requester. At this time, the image may be delivered directly by using the mail function, or a mail containing only the URL in which the image can be downloaded may be delivered.

As described above, the position of the photographer can be specified by using the face image received from the photographer. In addition, for example, a method of specifying the position of the shooting requester by making the LED attached to the mobile terminal emit light in an arbitrary pattern, or a method of specifying the position of the shooting requester using position information such as GPS. A method is also conceivable. Here, by prohibiting shooting when the shooting requester cannot find it, it is possible to prevent a person who is not there from illegally shooting.

(Example 2)
In the second embodiment, in the configuration example of FIG. 2, the determination of the shooting timing, which becomes an issue when the shooting requests are issued from a plurality of points, will be described. Here, the electric pan head of FIG. 2 has all the positions in a fixed cycle, such as the position of (A) → the position of (B) → the position of (C) → the position of (B) → the position of (A). The explanation is given assuming that the pan head is operating in a patrol manner.

FIG. 5 is a timing chart showing the operation timing of the electric pan head, the shooting request timing from each group, the image capture timing, and the actual shooting timing of each group in the configuration example of FIG.

It is assumed that the shooting request is issued in the order of group 1, group 3, and group 2 with the electric pan head at the position shown in FIG. 2- (A), that is, with group 1 within the angle of view. Since Group 1 can shoot immediately, the shooting countdown starts from the timing when the shooting request is issued, and the actual shooting is performed. Next, Group 3 that issued the shooting request cannot shoot until the electric pan head moves to the position shown in Fig. 2- (C), so by displaying a standby screen such as "Please wait for a while", the shooting requester waits. To urge. Group 2, which finally issued the shooting request, cannot shoot until the electric pan head moves to the position shown in Fig. 2- (B), so by displaying a standby screen such as "Please wait for a while", the shooting requester waits. To urge. After that, the electric pan head is driven, and the countdown is started at the timing when the movement to the pan head position shown in FIG. 2- (B) is completed. After that, the electric pan head is driven, and the countdown of group 3 is started at the timing when the movement to the pan head position shown in FIG. 2- (C) is completed.

With the above shooting timing control, it is possible to accept shooting requests from a plurality of locations even in the configuration example of FIG. Here, the countdown is set to 3 seconds, and when waiting for more than that, a standby screen such as "Please wait for a while" is displayed, but the number of seconds to start the countdown may be changed according to the waiting time. In that case, the countdown of the group 2 starts 5 seconds before, and the countdown of the group 3 starts 17 seconds before. Further, in this embodiment, the electric pan head is operated so as to patrol all positions at a constant cycle, but the electric pan head is dynamically operated by giving priority to the shooting request from the position close to the current position. You may. However, in that case, it is necessary to determine the next pan head position in consideration of the waiting time after receiving the shooting request so that the shooting request from a distant position will not continue to be ignored. Needless to say, there is. Further, in this embodiment, the control of the electric pan head is taken as an example, but it may be necessary to drive the focus lens due to a large difference in the focal length depending on the environment in which the main shooting system is installed and the subject. It is assumed that it may be necessary to drive the aperture to change the depth of field. Even in that case, it can be solved by using the same shooting timing control as in this embodiment.

(Example 3)
In the third embodiment, in the configuration examples of FIGS. 2 and 3, a method of determining a shooting angle of view, that is, a person from where to where is the same group, which is a problem when a shooting request is issued from a group of a large number of people. An explanation will be given regarding the flow for determining whether or not.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a method of determining a shooting angle of view in the shooting system according to the present embodiment, that is, a first method of determining from where to where people are in the same group. Here, this embodiment will be described with reference to the configuration example of FIG.

First of all, the shooting requester A performs remote shooting at the shooting point, for example, by using an application for remote shooting or accessing a Web service provided by the server for remote shooting. Start.

In step (1), a shooting request is made to the server from the owned mobile terminal according to the remote shooting procedure of the application or the Web service.

Next, in step (2), the server transmits the image currently being shot to the mobile terminal, and requests the shooting requester to specify the shooting angle of view. At this time, if the system configuration that enables the identification of the position of the shooting requester described in the first embodiment is adopted, the angle of view in the vicinity of the shooting requester can be transmitted, so that it goes without saying that the convenience is improved. Absent.

Next, in step (3), the shooting requester searches the range in which his / her group is captured from the received images, and determines the shooting angle of view. For example, it is preferable to provide a UI that enables the shooting angle of view to be determined by performing enlargement / reduction processing and movement processing by the shooting requester performing a touch operation on the image displayed on the mobile terminal. .. In this embodiment, the angle of view to be photographed is specified by a rectangle from the image, but the angle of view to be photographed may be displayed in full screen.

Next, in step (4), the shooting angle of view determined in step (3) is transmitted to the server. The server that receives it determines the shooting angle of view and prepares for shooting.

In step (5), the user is notified of the shooting timing by transmitting a shooting countdown to the terminal of the shooting requester.

In step (6), the image generated by the server is distributed to the shooting requester. At this time, the image may be delivered directly by using the mail function, or a mail containing only the URL in which the image can be downloaded may be delivered.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a method of determining a shooting angle of view in the shooting system according to the present embodiment, that is, a second method of determining from where to where people are in the same group. Here, the present embodiment will be described assuming that the system configuration enables the identification of the position of the photographing requester described in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7- (A) is an example of a screen displayed after specifying the position of the shooting requester on the server side, for example. The photographer selects the number of people in the group including himself.

FIG. 7- (B) is an example of a screen displayed after selecting the number of people in FIG. 7- (A). The photographer selects the position of the group member with respect to his / her position.

FIG. 7- (C) is an example of a screen displayed after selecting the arrangement in FIG. 7- (B). By displaying the selected position with a solid line, the arrangement with the photographer can be visually recognized. In this state, the shooting requester performs a transmission operation to transmit the positional relationship between the number of people in the group and the shooting requester to the server.

FIG. 7- (D) is an example of a confirmation screen. The server tentatively determines the cut-out angle of view based on the position of the shooting requester, the number of received groups, and the positional relationship with the shooting requester, and sends the angle of view to the shooting requester. Prompt for confirmation. If there is no problem with the displayed angle of view, the photographer performs an OK operation. If you want to change the displayed angle of view, select TELE if you want to make it a little more telephoto, and select WIDE if you want to make it a little wider. The angle of view can be changed.

Next, regarding a flow for determining from where to where people are in the same group, a method using LED light emission of a plurality of mobile terminals will be described.

FIG. 8 shows an example of a method of specifying the position of a shooting requester in the shooting system according to the present embodiment. Here, this embodiment will be described with reference to the configuration example of FIG.

In the first step (1), the shooting requester A uses, for example, an application for remote shooting or accesses a Web service provided by the server for remote shooting at the shooting point. Then, set a group for the members who are the group of the shooting requester A. Specifically, a WIFI or BLUETOOTH (registered trademark) provided in a mobile terminal is used to configure a state of constant connection.

Next, in step (2), the shooting requester A requests the server for remote shooting.

Next, in step (3), the server transmits a light emission pattern for identifying the shooting requester to the mobile terminal of the shooting requester A, and prepares for receiving light.

In step (4), the mobile terminal owned by the shooting requester A shares the light emission pattern with a plurality of mobile terminals set in advance in a group, and blinks the LED of the mobile terminal so that the light emission timing is matched.

The camera attached to the server in step (5) receives the blinking LED light in the same pattern.

In step (6), the server determines the group from the blinking LEDs by image processing and determines the trimming position.

In step (7), the user is notified of the shooting timing by transmitting a shooting countdown to the terminal of the shooting requester.

In step (8), a picture is taken with a camera. The image generated by the server in step (9) is distributed to the shooting requester. At this time, the image may be delivered directly by using the mail function, or a mail containing only the URL in which the image can be downloaded may be delivered.

Next, regarding a flow for determining from where to where people are in the same group, a method using LED light emission of a representative mobile terminal will be described.

FIG. 9 shows an example of a method of specifying the position of a shooting requester in the shooting system according to the present embodiment. Here, this embodiment will be described with reference to the configuration example of FIG.

In the first step (1), the shooting requester A uses, for example, an application for remote shooting or accesses a Web service provided by the server for remote shooting at the shooting point. Then, the shooting range is set so that the members who are the group of the shooting requester A are included.

Next, in step (2), the shooting requester A requests the server for remote shooting.

Next, in step (3), the server transmits a light emission pattern for identifying the shooting requester to the mobile terminal of the shooting requester A, and prepares for receiving light.

In step (4), the LED of the mobile terminal owned by the photographer A is blinked.

In step (5), the camera mounted on the server receives the flashing LED light in a predetermined pattern.

In step (6), the server determines the group from the blinking LEDs by image processing and determines the trimming position.

In step (7), the user is notified of the shooting timing by transmitting a shooting countdown to the terminal of the shooting requester.

In step (8), a picture is taken with a camera.

In step (9), the image generated by the server is distributed to the shooting requester. At this time, the image may be delivered directly by using the mail function, or a mail containing only the URL in which the image can be downloaded may be delivered.

Next, an example of a method of determining the shooting angle of view in the shooting system according to the present embodiment using an image, that is, a method of determining from where to where people are in the same group will be shown. Here, the present embodiment will be described assuming that the system configuration enables the identification of the position of the photographing requester described in the first embodiment.

First of all, as shown in FIG. 10- (A), the shooting requester A acquires an image including the facial images of all the group including the shooting requester A at the shooting point by using the mobile terminal owned by the shooting requester A. ..

FIG. 10- (B) shows the acquired group image. Here, an example of acquiring an image with a mobile terminal is shown, but the means for acquiring an image including a group does not have to be a mobile terminal, and an image may be acquired using a dedicated imaging device. After that, the shooting requester A transmits the acquired group image and the shooting request to the server from the mobile terminal owned by the shooting requester A. The server that receives the image identifies the position of the group including the shooting requester A from the group image taken by the shooting requester A and the image taken by the shooting system. The position specified here indicates the range in which the members of the group exist on the three-dimensional coordinates, and the position may be specified by matching two image features or the like, or the shooting given to the group image. It may be specified by using the absolute position information of the requester A (for example, GPS coordinates), or it may be specified by combining the absolute position information and the image feature. In this way, the server included in the shooting system accepts shooting requests for the group including the shooting requester A, identifies the position of the group, and simultaneously receives shooting requests including other shooting requesters by the same method. It is possible to identify the position of.

Next, an example of a method of determining the shooting angle of view in the shooting system according to the present embodiment using application software, that is, a method of determining from where to where people are in the same group will be shown. Here, the present embodiment will be described assuming that the system configuration enables the identification of the position of the photographing requester described in the first embodiment.

First, FIG. 11- (A) shows an example of application software for aggregating shooting requests. For example, considering the case where three shooting requesters A to C are in the same group and issue a shooting request, it is assumed that all the shooting requesters A to C have this software installed on their mobile terminals. To do.

Then, when the shooting requesters A to C select the same shooting request number on the software, the same request number "5" is highlighted on each mobile terminal as shown in FIG. 9- (B). It is shown on the UI that there are three users who have selected.

Then, after all the shooting requesters A to C included in the group select the request number and confirm the number of people, they select "START" shown on the UI shown in FIG. 11- (C). As a result, the absolute position information and the shooting request number acquired in advance by each mobile terminal are transmitted to the server. At this time, the absolute position information and the shooting request number may be transmitted separately from all the mobile terminals to the server, or the shooting request number and all the absolute position information included in the group may be transmitted from one mobile terminal on behalf of the server. It doesn't matter. The server can classify the absolute position coordinates with the same shooting request number as the same group from the absolute position information and shooting request number sent, and the group position on the three-dimensional coordinates including the shooting requesters A to C. Can be identified.

By adopting the above method, it is possible to determine the shooting angle of view, that is, to determine from where to where people are in the same group, which is an issue when a shooting request is issued from a large group of people. It becomes. By combining Example 3, Example 1 and Example 2, all the problems that "the shooting spot is limited and it is not possible to shoot without standing there, and it is not possible for a plurality of people or a plurality of groups to shoot at the same time" are all solved. It will be possible to solve it.

Although the present invention has been described in detail based on the preferred embodiments thereof, the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments, and various embodiments within the scope of the gist of the present invention are also included in the present invention. included. Some of the above-described embodiments may be combined as appropriate.

Further, when a software program that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment is supplied to a system or device having a computer capable of executing the program directly from a recording medium or by using wired / wireless communication, and the program is executed. Is also included in the present invention.

Therefore, in order to realize the functional processing of the present invention on a computer, the program code itself supplied and installed on the computer also realizes the present invention. That is, the computer program itself for realizing the functional processing of the present invention is also included in the present invention.

In that case, the form of the program does not matter, such as the object code, the program executed by the interpreter, and the script data supplied to the OS, as long as it has the function of the program.

The recording medium for supplying the program may be, for example, a hard disk, a magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic tape, an optical / optical magnetic storage medium, or a non-volatile semiconductor memory.

Further, as a method of supplying the program, a method in which the computer program forming the present invention is stored in a server on the computer network and the connected client computer downloads and programs the computer program can be considered.

100 digital camera, 101 lens, 102 image sensor,
109 image control unit, 111 lens control unit, 116 memory I / F unit,
117 memory, 118 image processing unit, 121 image output unit,
122 Camera side data communication unit, 140 Camera microcomputer,
150 server, 151 image input unit, 152 server side data communication unit,
153 Server main body microcomputer

Claims (12)

Shooting means for shooting the subject,
A shooting request receiving means for accepting a shooting request issued to the shooting means, and
The shooting request issuing position specifying means for specifying from which position the shooting request received by the shooting request receiving means was issued, and the shooting request issuing position specifying means.
With a shooting device equipped with
In a shooting system composed of terminals (portable terminals in FIG. 4) provided with a shooting request issuing means for issuing a shooting request to the shooting device.
A shooting system including a shooting schedule determining means (153 in FIG. 1) that determines a shooting schedule based on the timing and position information at which a shooting request is issued when a shooting request is received from a plurality of terminals. The first aspect of the present invention is characterized in that an electric pan head for changing the angle of view of the shooting means is further provided, and the shooting schedule determining means determines the shooting schedule in consideration of the control timing of the electric pan head. The shooting system described. The claim is characterized in that the focus lens control means for changing the focal length of the imaging means is further provided, and the imaging schedule determining means determines the imaging schedule in consideration of the control timing of the focusing lens controlling means. The shooting system according to 1. A diaphragm control means for changing the exposure and depth of field of the shooting means is further provided, and the shooting schedule determining means determines the shooting schedule in consideration of the control timing of the aperture control means. The photographing system according to claim 1. Shooting means for shooting the subject,
A shooting request receiving means for accepting a shooting request issued to the shooting means, and
The shooting request issuing position specifying means for specifying from which position the shooting request received by the shooting request receiving means was issued, and the shooting request issuing position specifying means.
With a shooting device equipped with
In a shooting system composed of terminals provided with a shooting request issuing means for issuing a shooting request to the shooting device.
A photography system comprising: a group determination means for determining whether a photography request received by the photography request receiving means is a photography request issued by an individual or a photography request issued by a group. The imaging system according to claim 5, wherein the schedule is determined by the imaging schedule determining means based on the result determined by the group determining means. The shooting system according to claim 5, wherein the group determination means displays a shot image on a mobile terminal and allows a user to select a shooting range. The photographing system according to claim 5, wherein the group determination means displays a UI on which the number of people and arrangement of a group can be selected on a mobile terminal, and allows a user to select the group. The group determination means is the same when a light emission pattern is transmitted to a mobile terminal, light reception preparation is performed, and the same light emission pattern emitted from a plurality of mobile terminals on the subject side is received during the light reception preparation period. The imaging system according to claim 5, wherein the positions of the light emitting patterns are grouped and the angle of view is determined so that all the groups are subject to imaging. The group determination means transmits a light emission pattern to a representative of a mobile terminal, prepares for light reception, receives area information issued from the mobile terminal during the light reception preparation period, and emits light. The imaging system according to claim 5, wherein when the pattern is received, the angle of view is determined from the light emitting position so as to include the region indicated by the region information. The imaging system according to claim 5, wherein the group determination means receives an image including a face image and determines that the members specified by the face image included in the image are in the same group. The fifth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the group determination means receives a shooting request in which the absolute position information and the shooting request number are associated with each other, and determines a plurality of absolute position information associated with the same request number as the same group. The shooting system described.

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