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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
James Wilson Nash, San Diego, CA (US);
Kalin Mitkov Atanassov, San Diego, CA (US);
Sergiu Radu Goma, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a first image from a first camera, the first camera having a first focal length and a first field of view. The method also includes obtaining a second image from a second camera, the second camera having a second focal length and a second field of view disposed within the first field of view. The method further includes aligning at least a portion of the first image and at least a portion of the second image to produce aligned images. The method additionally includes fusing the aligned images based on a diffusion kernel to produce a fused image. The diffusion kernel indicates a threshold level over a gray level range. The method also includes outputting the fused image. The method may be performed for each of a plurality of frames of a video feed.