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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anita Nariani Schulze, Los Altos, CA (US);
Rolf Toft, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paul M. Hubel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marius Tico, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jianping Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);
Ralph Brunner, Cupertino, CA (US);
Claus Molgaard, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve image stabilization operations are described. A novel combination of image quality and commonality metrics are used to identify a reference frame from a set of commonly captured images which, when the set's other images are combined with it, results in a quality stabilized image. The disclosed image quality and commonality metrics may also be used to optimize the use of a limited amount of image buffer memory during image capture sequences that return more images that the memory may accommodate at one time. Image quality and commonality metrics may also be used to effect the combination of multiple relatively long-exposure images which, when combined with a one or more final (relatively) short-exposure images, yields images exhibiting motion-induced blurring in interesting and visually pleasing ways.