Image capturing method and monitoring apparatus with supplemental lighting modulation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10057500
APP PUB NO 20180084179A1
SERIAL NO

15698658

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An image capturing method with supplemental lighting modulation is applied to a monitoring apparatus having a lighting unit and an image detecting unit. The image capturing method includes dividing a working period of the lighting unit into at least one first sub-period and at least one second sub-period, driving the lighting unit to respectively output supplemental light with different intensity during the first sub-period and the second sub-period, driving the image detecting unit to respectively capture a set of monitoring images with a predetermined amount during the first sub-period and the second sub-period, comparing the monitoring image captured in the first sub-period with ones captured in the second sub-period, analyzing definition of the set of monitoring images, and selecting a corresponding monitoring image having the definition greater than a threshold to execute image recognition.

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  • VIVOTEK INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chen, Yi-Chuan New Taipei, TW 36 134
Shih, Li-Shan New Taipei, TW 17 48

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