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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sheng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
D. Amnon Silverstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David R. Pope, Fremont, CA (US);
Suk Hwan Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An image signal processor may include a pixel defect correction component that tracks defect history for frames captured by an image sensor and applies the history when identifying and correcting defective pixels in a frame. The component maintains a defect pixel location table that includes a defect confidence value for pixels of the image sensor. The component identifies defective pixels in a frame, for example by comparing each pixel's value to the values of its neighbor pixels. If a pixel is detected as defective, its defect confidence value may be incremented. Otherwise, the value may be decremented. If a pixel's defect confidence value is over a defect confidence threshold, the pixel is considered defective and thus may be corrected. If a pixel's defect confidence value is under the threshold, the pixel is considered not defective and thus may not be corrected even if the pixel was detected as defective.