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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Maxim Smirnov, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Elena Lamburn, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); H04N 5/2352 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10144 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to fusion processing between two images captured with two different exposure times to generate a fused image with a higher dynamic range. An unscaled single color version of a first image is blended with another unscaled single color version of a second image to generate an unscaled single color version of the fused image. A downscaled multi-color version of the first image is blended with a downscaled multi-color version of the second image to generate a downscaled multi-color version of the fused image of a plurality of downscaled versions of the fused image. A first downscaled multi-color version of the fused image is generated by upscaling and accumulating the plurality of downscaled versions of the fused image. The first downscaled multi-color version of the fused image has a pixel resolution lower than a pixel resolution of the unscaled single color version of the fused image.


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