AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STILL AND MOVING PICTURE PRODUCTION

摘要

A camera for producing a standard resolution and rate image stream and a slow-motion image stream of an action of interest to facilitate autonomous picture production is disclosed. The camera comprises an imager for capturing an image stream at a frame rate of the slow-motion image stream and at a resolution equal to the maximum resolution of the standard image stream and the slow-motion image stream; a resolution down-sampler for reducing the resolution of each frame of the captured image stream if the captured image stream has a higher resolution than the slow-motion image stream; a slow-motion buffer for storing the slow-motion image stream; a rate and resolution down-sampler for reducing the frame rate of the image stream where the frame rate of the image stream is greater than the frame rate of the standard resolution and rate image stream, and for reducing the resolution of each frame of the image stream where the resolution of the image stream is greater than the resolution of the standard resolution and rate image stream, to produce the standard resolution and rate image stream. A camera for producing a standard resolution and rate image stream and still images of an action of interest to facilitate autonomous picture production is disclosed. The camera comprises an imager for capturing an image stream at a frame rate of the standard resolution and rate image stream and at a resolution equal to the resolution of the still images; a rate down-sampler for reducing the frame rate of the captured image stream to a desired still image rate to produce the still images; a still image buffer for storing the still images; a rate and resolution down-sampler for reducing the frame rate of the captured image stream where the frame rate of the image stream is greater than the frame rate of the standard resolution and rate image stream, and for reducing the resolution of each frame of the captured image stream where the resolution of the captured image stream is greater than the resolution of the standard resolution and rate image stream, to produce the standard resolution and rate image stream. The above cameras simultaneously produce the standard resolution and rate image stream and the slow-motion image stream. A camera for facilitating autonomous picture production is disclosed comprising an imager for capturing an image stream; a signal processor for processing the image stream into two or more image data paths; at least two image stream outputs; and a memory for cyclically buffering images of each image data path and for buffering one or more output image streams of the camera. The at least two image stream outputs are generated simultaneously.