Device and method for capturing images or video

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12273606-B2
Application number	US-202117799501-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2021
Priority date	Feb 14, 2020
Publication date	Apr 8, 2025
Grant date	Apr 8, 2025

Abstract

A device includes at least one first sensor and at least one second sensor for capturing first image data, the at least one first and second sensors being rectangular and arranged orthogonal to the at least one first rectangular sensor, and at least one hardware processor configured to cause the at least one first and second sensors, respectively, the first image data and the second image data at least substantially simultaneously, and at least one of display simultaneously data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image or store together data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image. The resulting first and second image data can be stored in a single file in memory. The at least one hardware processor can be processed to remove redundancies between the image data. The device can also extract from the first and second image data, image data corresponding to a rectangle parallel with an horizon.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
a first sensor for capturing first image data corresponding to a first image, the at least one first sensor being rectangular;
a second sensor for capturing second image data corresponding to a second image at least essentially orthogonal to the first image, the second sensor being rectangular and oriented to face a same direction as the first sensor relative to the device; and
at least one hardware processor configured to:
cause the first sensor and the second sensor to capture, respectively, the first image data and the second image data at least substantially simultaneously; and
store together data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image, wherein a first pair of opposite arms of the cross-shaped image originates from the first image data and a second pair of opposite arms of the cross-shaped image originates from the second image data.

2. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a display configured to display the cross-shaped image.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to process at least one of the first image data and the second image data to remove redundancies between the first image data and the second image data.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is configured to remove redundancies by:
rectifying the second image data to a referential to the first image data to obtain rectified second image data;
resizing the rectified second image data to match a size of the first image data to obtain resized second image data; and
removing parts of the resized second image data present in the first image data.

5. The device of claim 3 , further comprising an angle measurement unit configured to measure a roll angle of the device;
wherein the at least hardware processor is further configured to extract, from the first image data and the second image data and using the roll angle, image data corresponding to a rectangular image whose longer edge is parallel with the horizon.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein extracted image data, for at least some but not all roll angle values, includes image data from both the first image data and the second image data.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the device further comprises memory configured to store together the data from the first image data and the data from the second image data.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to store the data from the first image data and the data from the second image data, captured in response to an instruction, in a single file.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the first rectangular sensor and the second rectangular sensor have the same aspect ratio.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein the device is a smartphone or a tablet.

11. A method comprising:
capturing at least substantially simultaneously first image data corresponding to a first image by a first sensor of a device and second image data corresponding to a second image at least essentially orthogonal to the first image by a second sensor of the device, the first sensor being rectangular, and the second sensor being rectangular and oriented to face a same direction as the at least one first sensor relative to the device; and
storing together data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image, wherein a first pair of opposite arms of the cross-shaped image originates from the first image data and a second pair of opposite arms of the cross-shaped image originates from the second image data.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising processing, by at least one hardware processor, at least one of the first image data and the second image data to remove redundancies between the first image data and the second image data.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the processing means removes redundancies by:
rectifying the second image data to a referential to the first image data to obtain rectified second image data;
resizing the rectified second image data to match a size of the first image data to obtain resized second image data; and
removing parts of the resized second image data present in the first image data.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising storing the data from the first image data and the data from the second image data, captured in response to an instruction, in a single file.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code instructions that, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of a method according to claim 11 .

16. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second sensor is arranged at least essentially orthogonal to the first sensor.

Assignees

• Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Inventors

• Babon Frederic
• Langlois Tristan
• Boisson Guillaume
• Doyen Didier

Classifications

• H04N5/2628

  Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation · CPC title

• H04N23/951

  by using two or more images to influence resolution, frame rate or aspect ratio · CPC title

• H04N23/45 Primary

  for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images · CPC title