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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Todd Sachs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marius Tico, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rolf Toft, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul Hubel, Mountain View, CA (US);
George Williams, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for selectively capturing, retaining, and combining multiple sub-exposure images or brackets to yield a final image having diminished motion-induced blur and good noise characteristics. More specifically, after or during the capture of N brackets, the M best may be identified for combining into a single output image, (N>M). As used here, the term 'best' means those brackets that exhibit the least amount of relative motion with respect to one another—with one caveat: integer pixel shifts may be preferred over sub-pixel shifts.