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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ahmed T. Kamal, San Jose, CA (US);
Feng Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Florian Ciurea, Campbell, CA (US);
Jianping Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);
Saeed Izadi, Coquitlam, CA;
Sebastien X. Beysserie, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephane S. Ben Soussan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed herein to repair or mitigate the appearance of unwanted reflection artifacts in captured video image streams. These unwanted reflection artifacts often present themselves as brightly-colored spots, circles, rings, or halos that reflect the shape of a bright light source in the captured image. These artifacts, also referred to herein as 'ghosts' or “green ghosts” (due to often having a greenish tint), are typically located in regions of the captured images where there is not actually a bright light source located in the image. In fact, such unwanted reflection artifacts often present themselves on the image sensor across the principal point of the lens from where the actual bright light source in the captured image is located. Such devices, methods and computer readable media may be configured to detect, track, and repair such unwanted reflection artifacts in an intelligent and efficient fashion.