Gopro, Inc.

Jerome Labarthe

Anandhakumar Chinnaiyan

Romain Gounelle

Etienne Terree

An image captured using an image sensor is processed to determine control statistics and to produce an altered image which can be output for display or further processing at an image capture device, and the image is then processed according to the control statistics to produce a processed image which can be output for display or further processing at the image capture device or at another device. The altered image may have a lower resolution than the processed image. The image may be stored in a buffer. For example, the image may be retrieved from the buffer to produce the altered image, and again retrieved from the buffer to produce the processed image. The altered image may replace the image within the buffer. For example, the processed image may be produced to represent the altered image at a higher resolution.

Image and video processing using multiple pipelines

Multiple pipelines are used for image and video processing. In a first image processing pipeline, an image is retrieved from a buffer and processed using one or more image processing units. An altered image produced using the first image processing pipeline replaces the earlier version of the image stored in the buffer. The altered image may also be immediately output for display or encoding. In the second image processing pipeline, the altered image is retrieved from the buffer and processed according to image processing control statistics collected at the first image processing pipeline. The resulting processed image may then be encoded. A processed image output from the second image processing pipeline has a higher resolution than the altered image output from the first image processing pipeline.

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Jerome Labarthe