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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 12, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sebastien Marineau-Mes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles A. Mezak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arwen Bradley, Portland, OR (US);
Alex T. Nelson, Portland, OR (US);
Douglas P. Mitchell, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Claus Moelgaard, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jason Klivington, Portland, OR (US);
Rudolph van der Merwe, Portland, OR (US);
Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Farhan Baqai, Fremont, CA (US);
Todd Sachs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul Hubel, Mountain View, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.