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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2011
Kurt Barton Akeley, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yi-ren NG, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kenneth Wayne Waters, San Jose, CA (US);
Kayvon Fatahalian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy James Knight, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Romanenko, Campbell, CA (US);
Kurt Barton Akeley, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yi-Ren Ng, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kenneth Wayne Waters, San Jose, CA (US);
Kayvon Fatahalian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy James Knight, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Romanenko, Campbell, CA (US);
Lytro, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
According to various embodiments, multiple frames, each having image data and metadata, can be aggregated into pictures. The frames may come from different image capture devices, enabling aggregation of image data from multiple sources. Aggregation can be automatic, or it can be performed in response to user input specifying particular combinations of frames to be aggregated. In various embodiments, pictures are mutable, whereas immutability of the constituent frames is enforced. In various embodiments, certain metadata elements that are not essential to rendering can be selectively removed from frames, so as to address privacy concerns. In various embodiments, frames can be authenticated by the use of digests generated by a hash function.