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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robin B. Jenkin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Hongqin Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 17/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The embodiments of the invention here are automated systems and processes for testing a camera device. The processes can detect dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU) within a digital image that has been captured by a solid-state imaging sensor of the camera device under test. Techniques that may be able to detecting localized and global color drifts of various shapes have been described and claimed.