Virtual director's viewfinder

摘要

A virtual director's viewfinder includes: a housing with a form factor of a director's viewfinder; at least one mechanical viewfinder control connected to the housing, the virtual director's viewfinder encoding a setting of the mechanical viewfinder control into digital setting information; at least one communication device for communication of the digital setting information to a computer system, and for receiving from the computer system an image generated using the digital setting information; and a display device that presents at least the image received from the computer system.

主权项

1. A virtual director's viewfinder comprising:
a housing; at least one mechanical viewfinder control connected to the housing; at least one communication device; a display device; a processor; and one or more memory devices comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processor to perform operations including:
digitizing a setting of the at least one mechanical viewfinder control;sending the digitized setting of the at least one mechanical viewfinder control to an external computer system through the communication device;receiving an image from the external computer system through the communication device, wherein the digital setting information is used by the external computer system to generate the image; anddisplaying the image on the display device.