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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Gijesh Varghese, Milpitas, CA (US);
Farhan A. Baqai, Fremont, CA (US);
Giancarlo Todone, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hao Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard D. Seely, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices (NPSDs) for an improved, so-called 'hybrid' image registration process are disclosed herein, comprising: obtaining a first set of captured images, wherein the first set of captured images comprises a reference image and one or more bracketed images; and for each of the one or more bracketed images: performing a first (e.g., global) registration operation and a second (e.g., dense, or other localized) registration operation on the bracketed image with respect to the reference image, wherein each of the first and second registration operations produces an output; generating a blend map for the bracketed image, wherein each value in the blend map indicates whether to use the first or second registration operation output for a corresponding one or more pixels when registering the bracketed image with the reference image; and registering the bracketed image with the reference image, according to the generated blend map.