Built-in gyro sensor built-in SD card "virtualGimbal" that can correct intense camera shake simply by inserting it in the camera



The exhibition at DIY festival "Maker Faire Tokyo 2016" where various technologies are gathered "VirtualGimbal"Is an SD card type camera shake correction apparatus for correcting camera shake during shooting in real time only by inserting it in a card slot. It has become a marvelous technology beyond the area of ​​"made with hobbies", and test movies and the like that show how the camera shake correction process is actually performed are also made public.

Yoshiaki Sato | Maker Faire Tokyo 2016 | Make: Japan
http://makezine.jp/event/makers2016/yoshiaki_sato/

The following is actually tweet of those who visited virtualGimbal's exhibition booth at Maker Faire Tokyo 2016. Built-in gyro sensor in the SD card, by measuring the camera shake at the time of shooting in real time, it corrects the movie by post processing by the PC software, and handling with the general camera shake correction function The intense hand shake such as unbearable walking can be corrected as surprisingly stable image. Since it is also an SD card, shooting data is saved in virtualGimbal as it is.


At the exhibition booth, it seems that a movie comparing the original video with the compensated video by virtualGimbal was also exhibited. You can see that the movie shot while walking is being corrected quite stably.


A test movie by the producer has also been posted on YouTube, and you can see from the following.

VirtualGimbal - Post-processing stabilizer / Test No.5 - YouTube


In addition, Moshi Yoshiaki Sato wrote the process of making blog from the concept of virtualGimbal. I was considering brushless gimbals, etc. to compensate for camera shake of a hobby without mirroring and found that virtualGimbal was produced as an idea that can compensate for camera shake when walking without bulkiness.

Homebrew camera shake correction device concept: fun hobby science
http://mos-fet.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2015/12/post-b82d.html

The details of what kind of parts are used are written in the following entries.

Selection and ordering of parts of camera shake correction apparatus: Science of fun hobby
http://mos-fet.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2015/12/post-63c6.html

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