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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:
Jul. 07, 2015

Filed:

May. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Suk Hwan Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);

D. Amnon Silverstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven David Hordley, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Graham Finlayson, Norwich, GB;

Weichun Ku, San Jose, CA (US);

Joseph P. Bratt, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Suk Hwan Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);

D. Amnon Silverstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven David Hordley, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Graham Finlayson, Norwich, GB;

Weichun Ku, San Jose, CA (US);

Joseph P. Bratt, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2013.01); H04N 5/142 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 9/735 (2013.01); H04N 2209/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for generating local image statistics are provided. In one example, an image signal processing system may include a statistics pipeline with image processing logic and local image statistics collection logic. The image processing logic may receive and process pixels of raw image data. The local image statistics collection logic may generate a local histogram associated with a luminance of the pixels of a first block of pixels of the raw image data or a thumbnail in which a pixel of the thumbnail represents a downscaled version of the luminance of the pixels of the first block of the pixel. The raw image data may include many other blocks of pixels of the same size as the first block of pixels.


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