| 摘要 |
According to embodiments of the invention, systems, methods and devices are directed to a docking assembly for recharging a number of docking phones. The docking phones are complementary to each other to act as dynamic IP cameras with each position of the phones being automatically adjusted in view of obstructing objects moving in front of the docking assembly. As a result, images are produced having the widest field of view angles, thereby eliminating blocking effects from the obstructing objects. The docking assembly may have additional features such as using a round base structure having docking connectors disposed on a circular track around the base structure such that any docking phones, when connected, can be moved freely along the circular track. The phones may work in unison to produce a flat, stitched image by connecting individual images produced by the connected phones. |
| 主权项 |
1. A docking assembly for a plurality of mobile phones, comprising:
a rounded base structure configured to supply electrical currents to the docking assembly, the electrical currents for recharging the plurality of mobile phones; a circular track within the rounded base structure; three movable docking connectors disposed on the circular track, wherein each of the three movable docking connectors is movable around the circular track and is connectable to a mobile phone, wherein each mobile phone has a front camera with a lens of a focal length, and a sensor of a width and length; a digital compass included in each docking connector to determine a direction faced by a connected mobile phone; an infrared sensor configured to detect remote objects included in each docking connector to determine whether objects are obstructing a camera view of a connected mobile phone; and a control unit embedded in the rounded base structure for controlling and coordinating with the three mobile phones the control unit configured to do the following upon connection of the three mobile phones to the docking connectors:
initially after the three mobile phones are coupled onto each of the docking connectors manually by a user, the control unit is configured to prompt:
the digital compass included in each docking connector to determine a current location of the docking connector within the circular track by reporting the direction faced by the connected mobile phone;each mobile phone for its camera sensor size and present focal length for the control unit to compute a summed, entire field of view angle from each view angle from the three connected mobile phones;an image of a view from each front camera of the mobile phones consolidate all the images from all the connected mobile phones;the control unit is further configured to maximize the field of view angle of all the images captured by the connected three mobile phones by:
continuously detecting whether overlapping occurs between any two out of three mobile phones by:
comparing the images from each front camera of the mobile phones and, if no overlapping of common portions of field of views are found, computing the entire field of view angle by summing the field of view angles of the three mobile phones; andwhen certain common portions of views are found from edges in any images of any of the two out of three mobile phones, deduce an overlapping angle from the common portions of views proportional to the sizes of the overlapping images, and computing the entire field of view angle by summing the field of view angle of the three mobile phones minus the overlapping angle;monitoring whether any objects are blocking the field of view angle of one of the three mobile phones by:
using the infrared sensor to detect whether any objects are found in front of the docking connector within a close distance and; if no objects are found within the close distance, computing the entire field of view angle by summing the field of view angle of the three mobile phones;when a nearby object is detected by any one of the infrared sensors within the close distance, deducing a blocking angle from the image associated with the mobile phone that is blocked, where the angle is computed as being proportional to a size of the nearby object on the image with respect to the image associated with the mobile phone connected to the docking connector including the infrared sensor, and computing the entire view angle by summing the view angle of the three mobile phones and subtracting the blocking angle; andthe control unit further configured to move the any two of three mobile phones away from each other along the circular track just enough to reduce the overlapping angle to almost zero when it is concluded that overlapping occurs between any two out of three mobile phones; and
after modification, if any, output a flat, combined image by connecting the three images adjacently, wherein the field of view angle of the combined image is the widest possible angle after eliminating any overlapping areas. |
