Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Raymond Xue

Thomas Charles Oliver

Stephen Clifford Cooper

Roy Chun Beng Goh

Tomi Sokeila

Vishal Jain

Maria Cheng Lei

Chun Beng Goh

Methods and devices for dynamically controlling mirroring of a preview image may include receiving physical location information of a selected camera resource on the computer device, wherein the physical location information corresponds to a static orientation of the camera resource. The methods and devices may include determining a dynamic orientation of the selected camera resource based on sensor information for the selected camera resource and determining a camera role of the selected camera resource based on the dynamic orientation and the static orientation of the selected camera, wherein the camera role comprises a front facing camera role or a rear facing camera role. The methods and devices may include displaying a mirrored preview image when the camera role of the selected camera resource is the front facing camera role and displaying a non-mirrored preview image when the camera role of the selected camera resource is the rear facing camera role.

Dynamic control of camera resources in a device with multiple displays

New systems and methods are hereby provided that inherently and naturally resolve the challenges of synthesizing coordinated inputs from multiple cameras. For example, a multi-sensor mediator may collect the input data from multiple sensors, and generate a composite signal that encodes the combined data from the different sensors. The multi-sensor mediator may then relay the composite signal to a sensor controller, as if the signal were coming from a single sensor. A computing device that receives the input from the sensor controller may then generate an output based on the composite signal, which may include processing the composite signal to combine the separate signals from the different sensors, such as to provide a stereo image output, for example. The multi-sensor mediator makes such an output possible by ensuring coordinated input and processing of the input from the multiple sensors, for example.

Multiple sensor input data synthesis

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