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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:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 10, 2020
Applicant:

Contrast, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);

Inventors:

Willie C. Kiser, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Nora Tocci, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Michael D. Tocci, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Assignee:

Contrast, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01); H04N 9/67 (2006.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 9/09 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/6027 (2013.01); G02B 27/1013 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); H04N 1/00068 (2013.01); H04N 1/603 (2013.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 9/09 (2013.01); H04N 9/646 (2013.01); H04N 9/67 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); H04N 21/2365 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10144 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of the invention merge information from multiple image sensors to provide a high dynamic range (HDR) video. The present invention provides for real-time HDR video production using multiple sensors and pipeline processing techniques. According to the invention, multiple sensors with different exposures each produces an ordered stream of frame-independent pixel values. The pixel values are streamed through a pipeline on a processing device. The pipeline includes a kernel operation that identifies saturated ones of the pixel values. The streams of pixel values are merged to produce an HDR video.


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