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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Guy Côté, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey E. Frederiksen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guy Côté, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey E. Frederiksen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides techniques for performing audio-video synchronization using an image signal processing system. In one embodiment, a time code register provides a current time stamp when sampled. The value of the time code register may be incremented at regular intervals based on a clock of the image signal processing system. At the start of a current frame acquired by an image sensor, the time code register is sampled, and a timestamp is stored into a timestamp register associated with the image sensor. The timestamp is then read from the time stamp register and written to a set of metadata associated with the current frame. The timestamp stored in the frame metadata may then be used to synchronize the current frame with a corresponding set of audio data.