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Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017

Filed:

May. 22, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Anthony Cappa Spielberg, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G03B 9/64 (2006.01); G03B 7/093 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); G03B 7/093 (2013.01); G03B 9/64 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided to adjust a camera shutter lag. In the approach, data is collected that corresponds to an ambient light found in a physical environment with the ambient light being controlled using a pulse-width modulation (PWM). The pulse-width modulation corresponds to a PWM timing model. When an exposure request is received, the camera shutter lag is calculated using the PWM timing model. The calculated shutter lag is based on a future point in time at which the ambient light of the physical environment is predicted to be at a selected light output level, such as a power level selected by the user of a camera. When the calculated camera shutter lag has expired, a shutter of the camera is opened causing a camera lens to be exposed that results in a captured exposure.


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