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Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2012
Applicants:

Douglas Scott Price, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);

Hsi-jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Douglas Scott Price, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);

Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/169 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/87 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 19/169 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11); H04N 19/87 (2014.11);
Abstract

Techniques for adjusting exposure parameters of a camera such that video data captured by the camera may be coded efficiently. A camera with auto exposure control may capture and output frames of video. A pre-processor may estimate brightness of the frames of the video output from the camera. A controller may estimate a rate of brightness change among the frames, and when the rate of change is lower than a predetermined threshold, the controller may reduce sensitivity of the auto exposure control. A coding engine may predictively code the video.


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