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Smart camera

About: Smart camera is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5571 publications have been published within this topic receiving 93054 citations. The topic is also known as: intelligent camera.


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Patent
26 Oct 2006
TL;DR: A capsule camera as discussed by the authors consists of a swallowable housing, a light source within the housing, and a camera within the camera for capturing a first digital image and a second digital image of a view of the camera illuminated by the light source.
Abstract: A capsule camera apparatus includes a swallowable housing, a light source within the housing, a camera within the housing for capturing a first digital image and a second digital image of a view of the camera illuminated by the light source, a a motion detector that detects a motion of the housing using the first digital image and the second digital image, and a motion evaluator that selects a disposition of the second digital image, based on a metric on the motion. The disposition may include writing the second image into an archival storage or providing the second digital image to the outside by a wireless communication link.

56 citations

Patent
02 Nov 2007
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for providing visible indications of an area of interest for assisting the visual orientation of a user using a digital camera is presented, which is extremely useful for portable and wearable digital cameras as well as for setup of fixed camera applications.
Abstract: A system and method for providing visible indications of an area of interest for assisting the visual orientation of a user using a digital camera is provided. The system includes a digital camera having a built in illumination projector. The illumination projector optical axis is related to the camera optical axis. Typically the illumination projector is collimated with the camera. Images produced by the illumination projector are viewed by camera user and are used as a reference for understanding the camera orientation and for selecting the desirable direction and field of view (FOV) for the camera. The system and method is extremely useful for portable and wearable digital cameras as well as for setup of fixed camera applications.

56 citations

Patent
Kenji Morita1, Tomoaki Kawai1
22 Sep 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, a camera control system which will not invade one's privacy even if a camera is located where there is a problem in terms of privacy is presented, provided that the system is provided with an input unit for inputting a control command for controlling shooting direction or zoom magnification of the camera, a calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the control command input by the input unit, an area to be imaged by the camera.
Abstract: Provided is a camera control system which will not invade one's privacy even if a camera is located where there is a problem in terms of privacy. To accomplish this, the system is provided with an input unit for inputting a control command for controlling shooting direction or zoom magnification of the camera, a calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the control command input by the input unit, an area to be imaged by the camera, a limiting unit for limiting a control range of the zoom magnification of the camera in a case where the imaging area of the camera calculated by the calculation unit overlaps a prescribed area; and a control unit for controlling the zoom magnification of the camera so as to fall within the control range, which has been limited by the limiting unit, in a case where the zoom magnification of the camera exceeds the control range limited by the limiting unit.

56 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Oct 2018
TL;DR: This paper proposes an edge computing framework for real-time monitoring, which moves the computation away from the centralized cloud to the near-device edge servers and proposes an efficient heuristic algorithm based on the simulated annealing strategy.
Abstract: Due to the ever-growing demands in modern cities, unreliable and inefficient power transportation becomes one critical issue in nowadays power grid. This makes power grid monitoring one of the key modules in power grid system and play an important role in preventing severe safety accidents. However, the traditional manual inspection cannot efficiently achieve this goal due to its low efficiency and high cost. Smart grid as a new generation of the power grid, sheds new light to construct an intelligent, reliable and efficient power grid with advanced information technology. In smart grid, automated monitoring can be realized by applying advanced deep learning algorithms on powerful cloud computing platform together with such IoT (Internet of Things) devices as smart cameras. The performance of cloud monitoring, however, can still be unsatisfactory since a large amount of data transmission over the Internet will lead to high delay and low frame rate. In this paper, we note that the edge computing paradigm can well complement the cloud and significantly reduce the delay to improve the overall performance. To this end, we propose an edge computing framework for real-time monitoring, which moves the computation away from the centralized cloud to the near-device edge servers. To maximize the benefits, we formulate a scheduling problem to further optimize the framework and propose an efficient heuristic algorithm based on the simulated annealing strategy. Both real-world experiments and simulation results show that our framework can increase the monitoring frame rate up to 10 times and reduce the detection delay up to 85% comparing to the cloud monitoring solution.

56 citations

Patent
Chishima Makoto1, Kugo Morita1
27 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a mobile camera system is provided in which a user can view images of various desired locations while staying in a location remote from those locations, where a control server acquires positions of a plurality of mobile camera apparatuses set up on mobile bodies such as vehicles, and images that are acquired by the mobile camera apparatus via radio communication.
Abstract: A mobile camera system is provided in which a user can view images of various desired locations while staying in a location remote from those locations. A control server acquires positions of a plurality of mobile camera apparatuses set up on mobile bodies such as vehicles, and images that are acquired by the mobile camera apparatuses, via radio communication. Then, the control server manages the positions and the images in its image DB. Then, in response to an imaging request that is issued from a terminal apparatus to designate a location (area), the control server searches for the image satisfying the request, in the image DB, or newly acquires the image satisfying the request, from the mobile camera apparatus. Then, the control server transmits the image to the terminal apparatus via radio communication.

56 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202323
202262
202173
2020142
2019161
2018158