Modeless Video and Still Frame Capture
    32.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200068129A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16673173

    申请日:2019-11-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In an embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to capture still frames during video capture but may capture the still frames in the 4×3 aspect ratio and at higher resolution than the 16×9 aspect ratio video frames. The device may interleave high resolution, 4×3 frames and lower resolution 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and may capture the nearest higher resolution, 4×3 frame when the user indicates the capture of a still frame. Alternatively, the device may display 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and then expand to 4×3 frames when a shutter button is pressed. The device may capture the still frame and return to the 16×9 video frames responsive to a release of the shutter button.

    Configurable Convolution Engine
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200057789A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-20

    申请号:US16664096

    申请日:2019-10-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution or its variant operations on streaming input data of various formats. To process streaming input data, input data of multiple channels are received and stored in an input buffer circuit in an interleaved manner. Data values of the interleaved input data are retrieved and forwarded to multiplier circuits where multiplication with a corresponding filter element of a kernel is performed. Varying number of kernels with different sizes and sparsity can also be used for the convolution operations.

    Correcting pixel defects based on defect history in an image processing pipeline

    公开(公告)号:US10440299B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US14845659

    申请日:2015-09-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An image signal processor may include a pixel defect correction component that tracks defect history for frames captured by an image sensor and applies the history when identifying and correcting defective pixels in a frame. The component maintains a defect pixel location table that includes a defect confidence value for pixels of the image sensor. The component identifies defective pixels in a frame, for example by comparing each pixel's value to the values of its neighbor pixels. If a pixel is detected as defective, its defect confidence value may be incremented. Otherwise, the value may be decremented. If a pixel's defect confidence value is over a defect confidence threshold, the pixel is considered defective and thus may be corrected. If a pixel's defect confidence value is under the threshold, the pixel is considered not defective and thus may not be corrected even if the pixel was detected as defective.

    Highlight recovery in images
    36.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10070109B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-04

    申请号:US15198354

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to highlight recovery of a high-resolution image using a single low-resolution image captured at a lower exposure. An example apparatus includes a hue target circuit that receives an input image at a high-resolution including at least one pixel with a clipped color channel. For example, the input image is a Blue sky image with a pixel having clipped Blue channel. The hue target circuit also receives a set of candidate hue maps having a pixel resolution lower than the high-resolution of the input image. The hue target circuit generates a target hue value for the at least one pixel using the pixel information of the set of candidate hue maps. The apparatus also includes a hue recovery circuit that generates a recovered version of the input image by adjusting hue information of the clipped color channel based on the generated target hue.

    HIGHLIGHT RECOVERY IN IMAGES
    37.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180007332A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-04

    申请号:US15198354

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to highlight recovery of a high-resolution image using a single low-resolution image captured at a lower exposure. An example apparatus includes a hue target circuit that receives an input image at a high-resolution including at least one pixel with a clipped color channel. For example, the input image is a Blue sky image with a pixel having clipped Blue channel. The hue target circuit also receives a set of candidate hue maps having a pixel resolution lower than the high-resolution of the input image. The hue target circuit generates a target hue value for the at least one pixel using the pixel information of the set of candidate hue maps. The apparatus also includes a hue recovery circuit that generates a recovered version of the input image by adjusting hue information of the clipped color channel based on the generated target hue.

    Configurable Convolution Engine
    38.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180005344A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-04

    申请号:US15198478

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F17/153

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution or its variant operations on streaming input data of various formats. To process streaming input data, input data of multiple channels are received and stored in an input buffer circuit in an interleaved manner. Data values of the interleaved input data are retrieved and forwarded to multiplier circuits where multiplication with a corresponding filter element of a kernel is performed. Varying number of kernels with different sizes and sparsity can also be used for the convolution operations.

    Modeless Video and Still Frame Capture
    39.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170134655A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-11

    申请号:US15414866

    申请日:2017-01-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In an embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to capture still frames during video capture, but may capture the still frames in the 4×3 aspect ratio and at higher resolution than the 16×9 aspect ratio video frames. The device may interleave high resolution, 4×3 frames and lower resolution 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and may capture the nearest higher resolution, 4×3 frame when the user indicates the capture of a still frame. Alternatively, the device may display 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and then expand to 4×3 frames when a shutter button is pressed. The device may capture the still frame and return to the 16×9 video frames responsive to a release of the shutter button.

    APPLYING CHROMA SUPPRESSION TO IMAGE DATA IN A SCALER OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE
    40.
    发明申请
    APPLYING CHROMA SUPPRESSION TO IMAGE DATA IN A SCALER OF AN IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE 有权
    将图像数据应用于图像处理流水线图像中的色度抑制

    公开(公告)号:US20170061576A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-02

    申请号:US14841400

    申请日:2015-08-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06T3/40 H04N5/213 H04N7/0117 H04N9/70

    Abstract: An image processing pipeline may apply chroma suppression to image data at a scaler implemented in the image processing pipeline. Image data collected for an image may be received at a scaler that is encoded in a color space that includes a luminance component and chrominance components. When resampling the image data to generate a different size of the image, the scaler may attenuate the chrominance components of the image data according to the luminance component of the image data. The scaler may also perform dot error correction and convert the image data from one subsampling scheme to another.

    Abstract translation: 图像处理流水线可以对图像处理流水线中实现的缩放器的图像数据应用色度抑制。 针对图像收集的图像数据可以在编码在包括亮度分量和色度分量的颜色空间中的缩放器处被接收。 当重新采样图像数据以产生图像的不同大小时,缩放器可以根据图像数据的亮度分量来衰减图像数据的色度分量。 缩放器还可以执行点错误校正,并将图像数据从一个子采样方案转换到另一个子采样方案。

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