Apple Inc.

Vincent Y Wong

Claus Molgaard

Marco Zuliani

Brett M Keating

Frank Doepke

George E Williams

Ethan J Tira-Thompson

Aram M Lindahl

Jesse William Boettcher

Todd Stephen Sachs

Justin S Titi

Elliott B Harris

Karl Hsu

David J Rempel

Michael Rousson

Pulkit Desai

Jeff Brasket

The invention relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for responding to a user snapshot request by capturing anticipatory pre-snapshot image data as well as post-snapshot image data. The captured information may be used, depending upon the embodiment, to create archival image information and image presentation information that is both useful and pleasing to a user. The captured information may automatically be trimmed or edited to facilitate creating an enhanced image, such as a moving still image. Varying embodiments of the invention offer techniques for trimming and editing based upon the following: exposure, brightness, focus, white balance, detected motion of the camera, substantive image analysis, detected sound, image metadata, and/or any combination of the foregoing.

Method and apparatus for finding and using video portions that are relevant to adjacent still images

Systems and methods for improving automatic selection of keeper images from a commonly captured set of images are described. A combination of image type identification and image quality metrics may be used to identify one or more images in the set as keeper images. Image type identification may be used to categorize the captured images into, for example, three or more categories. The categories may include portrait, action, or 'other.' Depending on the category identified, the images may be analyzed differently to identify keeper images. For portrait images, an operation may be used to identify the best set of faces. For action images, the set may be divided into sections such that keeper images selected from each section tell the story of the action. For the 'other' category, the images may be analyzed such that those having higher quality metrics for an identified region of interest are selected.

Automated selection of keeper images from a burst photo captured set

A technique for managing memory allocation in an electronic device is provided. In one embodiment, a method includes loading a memory allocation strategy for an application executed by a processor of a device, and requesting memory for the application from various memory locations in accordance with the memory allocation strategy. In one embodiment, the device includes multiple sets of contiguous memory blocks and a memory heap, memory may be requested from at least one of these memory locations, and memory may then be allocated to the application in response to the request. In some embodiments, the memory allocation strategy may be stored in the device prior to execution of the application. Various other methods, devices, and manufactures are also provided.

Memory management system and method

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Vincent Y Wong