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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
May. 25, 2012
Frank Doepke, San Jose, CA (US);
Marco Zuliani, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Frank Doepke, San Jose, CA (US);
Marco Zuliani, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an image-capturing device includes a camera, one or more motion-estimating devices to detect motion data for the device, and a processing system which is configured to automatically estimate a first direction of a sweep motion of the image-capturing device based on the motion data. The processing system is further configured to automatically estimate a second direction of the sweep motion of the image-capturing device based on images captured by the image-capturing device and to automatically select the first direction or the second direction of the sweep motion.