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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Nishant Pandit, San Diego, CA (US);
Nathaniel Jay Tobias Salazar, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeyaprakash Soundrapandian, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An aspect of this disclosure is an apparatus for capturing an image. The apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to capture an image of a field of view. The apparatus also comprises a flash component configured to illuminate at least a portion of the field of view at a power level during capture of a first frame by the image sensor. The apparatus further comprises a controller. The controller is configured to determine a flash ramp-up time for the flash component, the flash ramp-up time corresponding to an amount of time between a flash being requested at the power level and the flash component producing the flash at the power level. The controller is also configured to blank the image sensor for a blanking period during the flash ramp-up time.