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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Marius Tico, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul M. Hubel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Frank Doepke, San Jose, CA (US);
Todd S. Sachs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); H04N 5/14 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/3572 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01);
Abstract
Lens flare mitigation techniques determine which pixels in images of a sequence of images are likely to be pixels affected by lens flare. Once the lens flare areas of the images are determined, unwanted lens flare effects may be mitigated by various approaches, including reducing border artifacts along a seam between successive images, discarding entire images of the sequence that contain lens flare areas, and using tone-mapping to reduce the visibility of lens flare.