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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2009
Eran Steinberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yury Prilutsky, San Mateo, CA (US);
Peter Corcoran, Galway, IE;
Petronel Bigioi, Galway, IE;
Eran Steinberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yury Prilutsky, San Mateo, CA (US);
Peter Corcoran, Galway, IE;
Petronel Bigioi, Galway, IE;
FotoNation Vision Limited, Galway, IE;
Abstract
A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a pre-captured or post captured reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the images is taken with flash and the other without. The system can be implemented as part of a digital camera acquisition chain having effective computation complexity.