Invention Publication
- Patent Title: DEMOSAICING CIRCUIT FOR DEMOSAICING QUAD BAYER RAW IMAGE DATA
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Application No.: US18429536Application Date: 2024-02-01
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Publication No.: US20240169481A1Publication Date: 2024-05-23
- Inventor: Sarvesh SWAMI , David R. POPE , Sheng LIN , Amnon D. SILVERSTEIN
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Main IPC: G06T3/4015
- IPC: G06T3/4015 ; G06T3/4007 ; G06T5/20

Abstract:
Embodiments ralte to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit demosaics Quad Bayer image data by interpolating a green channel of the image data along each of a plurality of directions, generating a gradient of the image data along each of the plurality of directions, modifying the interpolated green channels based on respective gradients to generate full-resolution green channel image data, which is combined with red and blue image data to generate the demosaiced image data. Interpolation is performed for non-green pixels based on neighboring green pixels along a specified direction, modified by a residual value based upon valued of one or more nearby same-color pixels and a correlation between values of the same color pixels and neighboring green pixels.
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