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Patent US8358357 - Video camera - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsEmbodiments provide a video camera configured to capture, compress, and store video image data in a memory of the video camera at a rate of at least about twenty three frames per second. The video image data can be mosaiced image data, and the compressed, mosaiced image data may remain substantially...http://www.google.com/patents/US8358357?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8358357 - Video cameraAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS8358357 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 13/566,868Publication dateJan 22, 2013Filing dateAug 3, 2012Priority dateApr 11, 2007Fee statusPaidAlso published asCA2683636A1, CA2683636C, CA2831698A1, CA2831698C, CN101689357A, CN101689357B, CN104702926A, EP2145330A1, EP2145330A4, EP2145330B1, EP2793219A1, US8174560, US8872933, US9230299, US9245314, US20080291319, US20120294582, US20120301102, US20150002695, US20150003801, WO2008128112A1Publication number13566868, 566868, US 8358357 B2, US 8358357B2, US-B2-8358357, US8358357 B2, US8358357B2InventorsJames Jannard, Thomas Graeme NattressOriginal AssigneeRed.Com, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (157), Non-Patent Citations (78), Referenced by (15), Classifications (18), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetVideo camera
US 8358357 B2Abstract
Embodiments provide a video camera configured to capture, compress, and store video image data in a memory of the video camera at a rate of at least about twenty three frames per second. The video image data can be mosaiced image data, and the compressed, mosaiced image data may remain substantially visually lossless upon decompression and demosaicing.
a portable housing having at least one handle configured to allow a user to manipulate the orientation with respect to at least one degree of movement of the portable housing during a video recording operation of the camera;
an optics socket supported by the portable housing and having an opening through which light emanating from outside the portable housing enters the portable housing;
an image sensor within the portable housing, configured to convert, at a frame rate of at least twenty three frames per second, light passing through the opening of the optics socket into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k;
a memory recorder comprising one or more memory devices and removably mounted to an exterior of the portable housing, the one or more memory devices configured to store video image data; and
an image processing system configured to compress the mosaiced image data and store the compressed, mosaiced image data in the memory recorder at a rate of at least twenty three frames per second, wherein
the compressed, mosaiced image data remains substantially visually lossless upon decompression and demosaicing, and
the memory recorder has the capacity to store compressed, mosaiced image data compressed at a compression ratio of about 6:1 and corresponding to at least about 30 minutes of video at 12 mega pixel resolution, 12-bit color resolution, and at 60 frames per second.
2. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is configured to compress the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 6:1 or greater.
3. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is configured to compress the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 7:1 or greater.
4. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is configured to compress the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 8:1 or greater.
5. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is configured to compress the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 12:1 or greater.
6. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is further configured to:
access the stored compressed, mosaiced image data from the memory recorder;
decompress and demosaic the accessed image data; and
output the decompressed and demosaiced image data for display on a monitoring device.
7. The video camera of claim 6, wherein the monitoring device comprises a display supported by the portable housing.
8. The video camera of claim 6, wherein the monitoring device comprises a display connected to the video camera by a cable.
9. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the video camera is configured to operate in a plurality of modes and, in at least one of the modes:
the image sensor is configured to convert, at a frame rate of 30 frames per second or greater, the light passing through the opening of the optics socket into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k, and
the image processing system is configured to store the compressed, mosaiced image data in the memory recorder at a rate of 30 frames per second or greater.
10. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the video camera is configured to operate in a plurality of modes and, in at least one of the modes:
the image sensor is configured to convert, at a frame rate of 60 frames per second or greater, the light passing through the opening of the optics socket into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k, and
the image processing system is configured to store the compressed, mosaiced image data in the memory recorder at a rate of 60 frames per second or greater.
11. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the video camera is configured to operate in a plurality of modes and, in at least one of the modes:
the image sensor is configured to convert, at a frame rate of 120 frames per second or greater, the light passing through the opening of the optics socket into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k, and
the image processing system is configured to store the compressed, mosaiced image data in the memory recorder at a rate of 120 frames per second or greater.
12. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the video camera is configured to operate in a plurality of modes and, in at least one of the modes:
the image sensor is configured to convert, at a frame rate of 60 frames per second, the light passing through the opening of the optics socket into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k; and
the image processing system is configured to store in the memory recorder compressed, mosaiced image data corresponding to at least about 30 minutes of video at 60 frames per second.
13. The video camera of claim 12, wherein, in the at least one of the modes, the image processing system is configured to compress the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 6:1 and store in the memory recorder, compressed, mosaiced image data corresponding to at least about 30 minutes of video at 12 mega pixel resolution, 12-bit color resolution, at 60 frames per second.
14. The video camera of claim 1, further comprising a user interface that allows a user to input commands that cause the image processing system to change a compression ratio at which the mosaiced image data is compressed.
15. The video camera of claim 1, further comprising a separate compression chip that performs the compression.
16. The video camera of claim 15, wherein the compression chip resides within the portable housing.
17. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system performs a wavelet-based compression technique.
18. The video camera of claim 17, wherein the image processing system performs a wavelet-based compression technique in accordance with the JPEG 2000 standard.
19. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image sensor comprises a CMOS device having a horizontal resolution of 4000 or more pixels and having a size of at least about 1.0 inches.
20. The video camera of claim 1, further comprising a color filter array configured to provide mosaiced light incident on the image sensor.
21. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the image processing system is configured to apply a pre-emphasis function to the image data prior to compression.
22. The video camera of claim 21, wherein the pre-emphasis function comprises a curve in the form y=(x+c)^g, where 0.01<g<1 and c is an offset.
23. The video camera of claim 21, wherein the pre-emphasis function comprises a curve in the form y=A*log(B*x+C), where A, B, and C are constants.
24. The video camera of claim 1, wherein the compressed, mosaiced image data comprises compressed raw image data.
25. A method of recording motion video with a video camera, the method comprising:
guiding light emanating from outside a portable housing of a video camera through an opening of an optics socket supported by the portable housing and onto an image sensor within the portable housing;
converting, at a frame rate of at least about twenty three frames per second, light incident on the image sensor into mosaiced image data that has a horizontal resolution of at least 4 k;
compressing the mosaiced image data into compressed, mosaiced image data; and
recording, at a rate of at least about 23 frames per second, the compressed, mosaiced image data into a memory recorder that comprises one or more memory devices and is removably mounted to an exterior of the portable housing,
wherein the compressed, mosaiced image data remains substantially visually lossless upon decompression and demosaicing,
wherein the memory recorder has the capacity to store compressed, mosaiced image data compressed at a compression ratio of about 6:1 and corresponding to at least about 30 minutes of video at 12 mega pixel resolution, 12-bit color resolution, and at 60 frames per second.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein said compressing comprises compressing the mosaiced image data at a compression ratio of about 6:1 or greater.
27. The method of claim 25, wherein said recording comprises recording compressed, mosaiced image data into the memory recorder corresponding to at least 30 minutes of video.
28. The method of claim 25, further comprising adjusting the compression ratio in response to commands input by a user into a user interface of the camera.
29. The method of claim 25, wherein said compressing comprises compressing the mosaiced image data using a separate compression chip.
30. The method of claim 25, wherein the compressed, mosaiced image data comprises compressed raw image data. Description
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/464,803, filed on May 4, 2012, entitled “VIDEO CAMERA,” which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/101,882, filed on Apr. 11, 2008, entitled “VIDEO CAMERA,” which claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. �119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 60/911,196, filed Apr. 11, 2007, and 61/017,406, filed Dec. 28, 2007. The entire contents of each of the foregoing applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
R m,n =R m,n−(G m,n−1 +G m+1,n +G m,n+1 +G m−1,n)/4 (1)
B m+1,n+1 =B m+1,n+1−(G m+1,n +G m+2,n+1 +G m+1,n+2 +G m,n+1)/4 (2)
In some embodiments, optionally, the blue and/or red image data can first be reconstructed before demosaicing. For example, the transformed blue image data B′m−1,n−1 can be first reconstructed by adding the average value of the surrounding green elements. This would result in obtaining or recalculating the original blue image data Bm−1,n−1. This process can be performed on all of the blue image data. Subsequently, the blue image data can be further demosaiced by any known demosaicing technique. The red image data can also be processed in the same or similar manners.
In operation block 70′, the image data can be demosaiced. In the description set forth above with reference to operation blocks 66 and 70, the green, red, and blue image data can be demosaiced in two steps. However, in the present flow chart 60′, the demosaicing of all three colors of image data is represented in a single step, although the same demosaicing techniques described above can be used for this demosaicing process. After the operation block 70′, the flow chart can move on to operation block 72, in which the red and blue image data can be reconstructed, and operation block 64 in which an inverse look-up table can be applied.
By demosaicing the green image data before reconstructing the red and blue image data, certain further advantages can be achieved. For example, as noted above, the human eye is more sensitive to green light. Demosaicing and processing the green image data optimize the green image values, to which the human eye is more sensitive. Thus, the subsequent reconstruction of the red and blue image data will be affected by the processing of the green image data.
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