| US 7,616,886 B2 | ||
| Photographing apparatus, device and method for obtaining images to be used for creating a three-dimensional model | ||
| Koichi Matsumura, Bracknell (United Kingdom); Adam Michael Baumberg, Guildford (United Kingdom); Alexander Ralph Lyons, Cambridge (United Kingdom); Kenichi Nagasawa, Kanagawa (Japan); and Takashi Saito, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Europa, NV, Amstelveen (Netherlands) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/555,317 PCT Filed May 04, 2004, PCT No. PCT/GB2004/001896 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jan. 19, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/114681, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 0310504.6 (GB), filed on May 07, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0109295 A1, May 17, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03B 35/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 396—325 [396/326; 348/50; 348/142; 352/70] | 15 Claims |
| 1. An apparatus for creating a three-dimensional object model, comprising:
photographing means for photographing an object to be modeled for obtaining images to be used for creating the three-dimensional
object model;
setting means for longitudinally and latitudinally setting a relative position between the object and said photographing means,
said setting means being capable of setting the object and said photographing means a plurality of different relative longitudinal
and latitudinal positions; and
control means for controlling said photographing means and said setting means so that a number of photographs taken from different
relative longitudinal positions at a first relative latitudinal position is larger than that taken from different relative
longitudinal positions at a second relative latitudinal position, with the first relative latitudinal position being closer
to a lateral position than the second relative latitudinal position.
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