Apple Inc.

Sebastien Marineau-Mes

Paul M Hubel

Rudolph Van Der Merwe

Farhan A Baqai

Todd Stephen Sachs

Claus Molgaard

Jason Klivington

Alex Tremain Nelson

Charles A Mezak

Douglas P Mitchell

Arwen V Bradley

Ziv Attar

Claus Moelgaard

Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani

Ilana Volfin

In various implementations a method includes obtaining a plurality of source images, stabilizing the plurality of source images to generate a plurality of stabilized images, and averaging the plurality of stabilized image to generate a synthetic long exposure image. In various implementations, stabilizing the plurality of source images includes: selecting one of the plurality of source images to serve as a reference frame; and registering others of the plurality of source images to the reference frame by applying a perspective transformation to others of the plurality of the source images.

Synthetic long exposure image with optional enhancement using a guide image

Techniques are disclosed for capturing stereoscopic images using one or more high color density or 'full color' image sensors and one or more low color density or 'sparse color' image sensors. Low color density image sensors, may include substantially fewer color pixels than the sensor's total number of pixels, as well as fewer color pixels than the total number of color pixels on the full color image sensor. More particularly, the mostly-monochrome image captured by the low color density image sensor may be used to reduce noise and increase the spatial resolution of an imaging system's output image. In addition, the color pixels present in the low color density image sensor may be used to identify and fill in color pixel values, e.g., for regions occluded in the image captured using the full color image sensor. Optical Image Stabilization and/or split photodiodes may be employed on one or more sensors.

Enhancing spatial resolution in a stereo camera imaging system

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