WO2001045388A2 - Methods and apparatus for image manipulation - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to the acquisition, transmission, and processing of digital images.
- a method of image manipulation comprises acquiring one or more digital images with a hand held digital camera; transmitting them to a network address substantially simultaneously with the acquiring, and storing the digital images in a database hosted by a network server associated with the network address.
- a method of image manipulation comprises authorizing a portable image acquisition device operator to access a portion of an image database and receiving images from a portable image acquisition device operated by the portable image acquisition device operator automatically and substantially concurrently with image acquisition. The images may then be stored in the image database; and retrieved under the direction of the portable image acquisition device operator after verifying the authorization.
- Image acquisition devices may comprise image acquisition circuitry having digital image data as an output; a user actuated control for initiating image acquisition, a wireless transmitter, and logic circuitry coupled to the image acquisition circuitry, the user actuated control, and the wireless transmitter, wherein the logic circuitry is configured to route the digital image data to the wireless transmitter in response to the user actuated control.
- a portable image acquisition device comprises image data acquisition circuitry, image data transmission circuitry; and a memory location having stored therein a network address of a network server to which image data is automatically forwarded.
- Systems for image manipulation may comprise a plurality of portable image acquisition devices, wherein each of the portable image acquisition devices comprises a wireless transmitter.
- This system may also comprise a computer system remote from the portable image acquisition devices and in communication with the portable image acquisition devices by a communication link accessible via the wireless transmitters, wherein all of said plurality of portable image acquisition devices are configured to transmit images to the computer system substantially automatically as the images are acquired.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image manipulation system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flow chart of one mode of operation of an image manipulation system in one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the components of an image acquisition device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention which is suitable for use in the system of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the components of an image acquisition device in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention which is suitable for use in the system of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the image acquisition device of FIG. 4.
- Figure 1 illustrates a system for image manipulation which includes a plurality of portable image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16.
- the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 are devices that produce digital data defining an image.
- the image is typically a two-dimensional digital representation of a document, thing, person, scenery, etc. or a combination of these things which is proximate to the image acquisition device.
- the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 are each independently operated by separate image acquisition device operators.
- the image acquisition devices may be separate digital cameras carried by separate vacationers or news reporters. As will be explained below, this is one especially advantageous application of the system of Figure 1.
- the image acquisition devices may also be digital scanners.
- digital cameras focus a field of view onto a two-dimensional pixel array using a lens system, operating essentially as a conventional camera, but with a light sensitive electronic pixel array instead of film. They are typically hand-held, lightweight, and convenient to carry.
- a scanner may also be light weight and portable, although they are usually larger and heavier than a digital camera. Scanners usually acquire an image by passing a one-dimensional array of pixels across a two dimensional transparent surface which has a document or other fiat object held against the transparent surface. Both digital cameras and scanners are often owned, controlled, and operated by individuals.
- the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16, comprise surveillance cameras.
- Surveillance cameras may also be lightweight and portable, although once installed, they are typically not moved frequently or carried by an individual on a regular basis. In this embodiment, each camera will likely not be independently operated by separate individuals, but will be part of a single monitoring installation.
- the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 advantageously include communication circuitry for communicating to a network 18.
- the connection to the network 18 may in some embodiments comprise a wired connection, but in especially advantageous embodiments of the invention, and as illustrated in Figure 1, the communication circuitry comprises wireless communication circuitry for communicating to the network 18 via a wireless communication infrastructure.
- the wireless communication infrastructure be cellular, satellite, digital PCS, or any other known or future developed wireless communication technology.
- the image acquisition devices could comprise two separately housed components, one being hand-held, and the other stationary.
- the communication link to the network may comprise two parts, one link from the handheld portion to the stationary portion, and a second link from the stationary portion to the network 18.
- one or both of these links is wireless, but this need not be the case in all embodiments of the invention.
- the network 18 may be any type of electronically connected group of computers including, for instance, the following networks: Internet, Intranet, Local Area Networks (LAN) or Wide Area Networks (WAN).
- the connectivity within the network 18 may be, for example, remote modem, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Token Ring (IEEE 802.5), Fiber Distributed Datalink Interface (FDDI), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), or any other communication protocol.
- the computing devices linked to the network 18 may be desktop, server, portable, hand-held, set-top, or any other desired type or configuration.
- the network 18 is the global wide area computer network commonly referred to as "the Internet.” This is an advantageous implementation when the image acquisition devices are independently owned and operated digital cameras or scanners. In a surveillance camera embodiment, the network 18 will usually be a private LAN. Currently, many network communications within the global Internet are performed using the TCP/IP format.
- Transmission Control Protocol is a transport layer protocol used to provide a reliable, connection-oriented, transport layer link among computer systems.
- the network layer provides services to the transport layer.
- TCP provides the mechanism for establishing, maintaining, and terminating logical connections among computer systems.
- TCP transport layer uses IP as its network layer protocol.
- IP Internet Protocol
- IP network layer supports many personal, technical and business applications, such as electronic mail, electronic fund transfers, medical records processing and similar data transfers.
- IP is a connectionless network layer protocol that performs addressing, routing and control functions for transmitting and receiving datagrams over a network.
- the computer system 20 Connected to the network 18 is a computer system 20 which receives image data from the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 via the network 18.
- the computer system 20 will typically be a network server which includes software for receiving image data and storing the image data in an associated image database.
- the network server will be assigned a network address for identification during communications between elements of the network 18.
- Communications from other network connected devices such as the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16, to the computer system 20 will include the network address of the computer system 20 as part of the communication so that the computer system 20 is identified as the recipient of the data.
- the network address is an IP address which may, at least in part, route the image data to an e-mail account, a web-site, or other Internet tool.
- the computer system 20 may also host image processing software for arithmetically and logically manipulating the image data received from the plurality of image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16. This software may include pixel processing routines for equalization, color correction, or any of a wide variety of feature enhancement algorithms.
- the computer system 22 will typically comprise a personal computer (PC), such as are available from International Business Machines, Compaq Computer Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and many others. These computer systems normally include at least one microprocessor, a display screen, a keyboard, and a storage medium such as a hard disk. A printer is also advantageously locally associated with the computer system 22.
- the computer system 22 includes software for communicating with the network server 20 via the network 18.
- the network comprises the Internet
- software is commonly referred to as a web-browser.
- the e-mail account, web site, or other tool may be available to the web browser through a domain name (e.g. www.site.com) which maps to the IP address of the network server 20.
- the image acquisition devices, 12, 14, 16, the image storage and processing computer 20, and the image retrieval and printing computer 22 thus form a distributed image manipulation system which has its components connected through the network 18.
- This image manipulation system operates by initially transmitting image data acquired by the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 to the image storage and processing computer system 20 via the network 18, generally by routing the image data to a pre-defined network address stored in the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16.
- the image acquisition devices transmit image data substantially as the image data is acquired, and perform only minimal data storage and image processing functions. This provides several significant advantages.
- the image acquisition devices 12, 14, 16 are less expensive because a large amount of memory and computational power for image storage and processing need not be provided.
- image security is improved because the images are almost immediately stored on the image database associated with the image storage and processing computer system 20. This eliminates the risk of losing the image acquisition device or associated memory modules and thus losing a large number of acquired images at the same time.
- the wireless communication link connection to the network 18 is advantageous in these embodiments because the camera, scanner, etc. can be operated without being tied by wire or cable to any other computer entities. It can be carried around and used in a completely conventional manner as far as the user of the device is concerned.
- image data transfer is fast enough to be able to transmit image data at an average rate at least as fast as image data is acquired, although it will be appreciated that temporary differences in data acquisition and transmission rates can be tolerated with internal data buffering as described below.
- image data compression is generally advantageous prior to transmission to reduce the amount of data required to be sent with each image.
- a sequence of images may be acquired by the image acquisition device in rapid succession, such as 1, 2, 10, or even 100 images per second.
- the transmission data rate should be able to accommodate these image sequences.
- Image compression algorithms designed for motion pictures such as the well known MPEG standard, may be used in these applications to provide for a high compression ratio.
- a central image repository is created for hundreds or thousands of individual digital camera users without any inconvenience or device handling complications to the users themselves.
- Each camera is pre-programmed to download image data as images are acquired. Acquired images may be retrieved at the user's convenience using their home computer. The users need never worry about having sufficient memory to acquire more images or worry about the whereabouts of disks, memory modules, or other types of storage devices.
- some cameras may be pre-programmed with image destinations other than the image storage and processing computer 20. For instance, some users may wish to program their cameras with their own e-mail account, personal web site, or other internet tool or location.
- an image acquisition device operator an individual digital camera owner, for example, may be authorized to access a portion of an image database associated with the image storage and processing computer 20.
- the digital camera is used to acquire images
- the acquired images are downloaded automatically and substantially concurrently to the image storage and processing computer system 20, and at block 32 the images are stored there in the database portion accessible to the image acquisition device operator.
- the digital camera operator may therefore take an unlimited amount of pictures with the camera without purchasing, carrying, securing, or in any way dealing with the memory required for image storage. The risk of misplacing the images and loss by theft or the like is also eliminated.
- the camera operator's home personal computer may comprise the image retrieval and printing computer system 22.
- the image storage and processing computer 20 and its associated image database are accessed.
- the authorization to access the portion of the database in which the images are stored may be verified.
- the user may be allowed to retrieve the images previously acquired.
- the images may then be viewed, specific desired image processing algorithms may be performed under the direction of the operator, and the images may be printed with a printer associated with the computer system 22.
- FIG 3 illustrates the components of one embodiment of an image acquisition device which may advantageously be used in the system described above and shown in Figure 1.
- the image acquisition device 40 is controlled by a micro-controller 42 which includes control and processing logic. Suitable micro-controllers are commercially available from, for example. Motorola Corporation and a wide variety of other companies.
- the micro-controller 42 is coupled to image acquisition circuitry 44, a data buffer 46, a wireless transmitter 48, and a user control 50.
- the image acquisition circuitry will typically include a one or two-dimensional array of light sensitive elements, such as a CCD array or an array of photodiodes.
- the image acquisition circuitry 44 has digital image data as an output that is routed to the micro-controller 42.
- the micro-controller then routes the image data received from the image acquisition circuitry 44 to a wireless transmitter 48 for transmission to the network 18 of Figure 1.
- the micro-controller will generally not perform image analysis and processing such as equalization, color correction, or other logical and arithmetic pixel processing algorithms.
- the data manipulation performed by the micro-controller 42 and/or the wireless transmitter 48 is limited to data compression, data encryption, and packaging in appropriate format (such as TCP/IP) for reception and handling by the wireless link infrastructure and the network 18.
- the shutter release button may function as a single push- button control 50 which both initiates image acquisition as well as image transmission with a single actuation.
- the beneficial aspects of the camera are made more user friendly, because the entire transmission process is automatic and transparent to the user of the device 40.
- the image acquisition device is pre-programmed with the identification of the server 20 to which the data will be sent by storing the network address and/or other required data routing information in the image acquisition device. Generally this information is will be stored in EEPROM or other non-volatile program memory internal to or associated with the micro-controller 42 as part of the micro-controller programming that controls data acquisition and transmission.
- an image data buffer 46 may be provided as a low capacity temporary storage for image data. This is especially useful if the user control 50 is also used to initiate the establishment of the wireless link through local wireless communication infrastructure (e.g. cellular telephone service). In this case, acquired image data may need to be stored temporarily in the buffer while the link is established. Even if the link is established prior to image acquisition, the rate of image data acquisition may be different from the rate of image data transmission, and so buffer storage 46 may also be needed during the process of transmission. To reduce device cost, it is preferable to minimize the capacity of this buffer, although of course buffer overflow during image acquisition and transmission should be avoided. In some embodiments, the buffer stores at most data for three images. More buffer memory may be required depending on the functionality of the image acquisition device.
- the image acquisition device may also comprise a real-time clock 52 and a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signal receiver 54.
- GPS Global Positioning System
- Each of these devices 52, 54 may also be coupled to the micro-controller 42, and image acquisition time as well as the location of the device 40 when the image was acquired may be associated with the image data and transmitted to the computer system 20 as each image is transmitted.
- Status information may also be associated with the image data for each image transmitted from the device 40. This information may include, for example, the ambient light level, battery charge level, and/or error conditions that might be present such as mechanical errors or buffer overflow.
- the device 40 may also be coupled to a renewable energy source such as a solar panel (not shown). This allows for remote image acquisition without a wired power source or batteries which require periodic replacement.
- a renewable energy source such as a solar panel (not shown). This allows for remote image acquisition without a wired power source or batteries which require periodic replacement.
- FIGs 4 and 5 a second embodiment of an image acquisition device is illustrated. Operation of the device of Figure 4 is functionally similar to that described with reference to Figure 3, however, in this embodiment, the micro-controller 42 communicates with a removable circuit card 58 through a disengagable connector 59. In this embodiment, the wireless transmitter 48 is mounted on the removable card 58. This is an advantageous configuration because many commercially available digital cameras include removable circuit cards on which is mounted the memory which stores acquired images. The circuit card 58 of Figure 4 may be compatible with these removable memory cards, but will transmit the acquired images, rather than store them in on-board memory.
- An interface circuit 60 on the circuit card may mimic the interface of a standard memory card so that the micro-controller 42 operates in a manner identical to a conventional digital camera.
- On board control logic 62 which is pre-programmed with a network server destination for image data manages the interface circuit 60 and the buffer 46 to implement wireless transfer of the image data as described above.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a digital camera embodiment incorporating these features.
- the circuit card 58 which may advantageously be in an industry standard PCMCIA format, fits into a receptacle 68 provided in the housing 70 of the camera. Electrical contacts 69 on one edge of the circuit card 58 couple to the connector in the camera housing
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