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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Avijit S. Wasu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anandhakumar Chinnaiyan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Darling, Cupertino, CA (US);
Florian Ciurea, Campbell, CA (US);
Tao Zhang, Campbell, CA (US);
Zejing Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Mitigations for camera alignment during image capture preview involve receiving a zoom level request for a multicamera system comprising a first camera having a first optical zoom metric and a second camera having a second optical zoom metric, and obtaining an image frame from the first camera. A target transformation is determined based on difference between the first optical zoom and a requested zoom level, the second camera's native optical zoom level, the relative orientation of the first and second cameras within the system framework and the relative intrinsics on the two cameras. The transformation is applied before, in conjunction with, or followed by a separate digital zoom transform to the image frame to obtain a transformed and digitally zoomed image frame transformation.