Motorola Mobility LLC

Emily Yang

John Christopher Pincenti

Cole Preston Sheldon

Zetong Gu

An electronic device includes an image capture device configured to capture image sensor data in response to initiation of an image capture operation. The electronic device includes one or more processors and a display operable with the one or more processors. The one or more processors select saturated pixels of the image sensor data and determine a gain factor as a function of brightness values of pixels in the image sensor data. The one or more processors increase an intensity value of the saturated pixels by the gain factor to create scaled image sensor data, blur at least some of the scaled image sensor data by convolving a blur kernel with the scaled image sensor data to create altered image sensor data exhibiting a simulated bokeh effect and cause the display to present the altered image sensor data exhibiting the simulated bokeh effect.

Electronic devices and corresponding methods for creating and presenting altered image sensor data simulating a bokeh effect

An electronic device, method and computer program product provide an image capturing device having a lens assembly including a lens and lens housing that supports the lens. The lens housing has an opening that exposes the lens. A planar exterior surface of the electronic device extends across the lens assembly and includes a slit aperture that is smaller than the opening in the lens housing of the image capturing device. The slit aperture directs only a corresponding portion of light from in front of the planar exterior surface through the opening to the lens. The slit aperture enables at least one of: (i) reducing noticeability of the image capturing device; and (ii) use of an adjacent portion of the planar exterior surface for an aesthetic or functional component. An image from the image capturing device is sharpened along a longer dimension of the slit aperture to remove asymmetric blur.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Emily Yang