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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Adrian Crisan, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolaos Georgis, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); G06F 3/005 (2013.01); H04N 1/00204 (2013.01); H04N 5/2621 (2013.01); H04N 5/76 (2013.01);
Abstract
A camera system includes an image sensor and a processing apparatus receiving image frames from the sensor before and after receipt of a user picture signal. The processing apparatus discards frames that do not meet a quality criterion such as under-exposed frames. Also, the processing apparatus compresses only a subset of remaining frames, specifically, those that meet a compression amount threshold. The remaining frames are presented to a user, who can select a representative frame as the 'picture' that was taken.