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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:
Apr. 05, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2007
Applicants:

Amnon Silverstein, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sheng Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Brian Rodricks, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Amnon Silverstein, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sheng Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Brian Rodricks, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aptina Imaging Corporation, George Town, KY;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may transpose image blocks from successively-captured versions of an image according to relative movement between an image capture device and the scene being captured. The transposition may provide for alignment of the successively-captured images notwithstanding the movement. The transposed image blocks from the successive images are composited in the frequency domain by integrating frequency domain coefficients from each into a composite final image. Additional embodiments are disclosed.


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