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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:
Nov. 08, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2012
Applicants:

Noam Levy, Karmiel, IL;

Guy Rapaport, Nahariya, IL;

Inventors:

Noam Levy, Karmiel, IL;

Guy Rapaport, Nahariya, IL;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/0034 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 5/23267 (2013.01); H04N 5/355 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards enabling digital cameras to digitally process a captured a Low Dynamic Range image sequence at a real time video rate, and to convert the image sequence into an High Dynamic Range (HDR) image sequence using a pipelined architecture. Two or more image frames are captured using different exposure settings and then combined to form a single HDR output frame in a video sequence. The pipelined architecture operate on adjacent image frames by performing an image alignment, an image mixing, and a tone mapping on the adjacent image frames to generate the HDR image sequence.


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