Mine One Gmbh

Christoph Birkhold

James Alexander McCombe

James A Mccombe

Brian W Smith

Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable generating reduced-noise image frames based on image frames received from a digital camera pipeline; and enable efficient stereo image search between corresponding images generated by at least two cameras.

Temporal de-noising

Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable reconstruction of synthetic images of a scene from the perspective of a virtual camera having a selected virtual camera position, based on images of the scene captured by a number of actual, physical cameras.

Image reconstruction for virtual 3D

Methods, devices, systems and computer software/program code products include techniques for creating a deep frame buffer, such techniques being implementable in conjunction with an apparatus comprising a main camera and an array of buddy cameras, the main camera and the buddy cameras being operable to capture images; and techniques for creating at least one depth buffer, such techniques being implementable in conjunction with an apparatus comprising at least two cameras.

Camera system utilizing auxiliary image sensors

Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable efficient handling and remedying of unreliable sensor data, such as data captured by cameras in a virtual 3-dimensional (V3D) imaging or communications system; and enable, in a visual communications system involving a plurality of display devices usable by respective users, synchronization to a common space, and display of images by a receiving device in an orientation independent of the angle at which the receiving device is held.

Visual communications methods, systems and software

Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable efficiently finding stereo correspondence between a feature or set of features in a first image or signal, and a search domain in a second image or signal.

Stereo correspondence search

Methods, devices, systems and computer software/program code products improve the reliability of scene reconstruction through the use of a persistent store or cache to retain scene information observed across one or more previous frames.

Disparity cache

Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable generating reduced-noise image frames based on image frames received from a digital, camera pipeline; and enable efficient stereo image search between corresponding images generated by at least two cameras.

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Christoph Birkhold