Abstract:
A shutter lag from when a shutter button is fully pressed to when an exposure is actually performed may be reduced by performing a precedence operation for a state transition of a shutter when the shutter button is half pressed.
Abstract:
A system (100) for improved camera focusing systems using subject location tags (116). More particularly, the disclosed subject matter relates to providing a system (100) comprising camera accessories and in-lens technologies that allows for the continuous, automated focus of a subject by measuring the distance between the camera and a subject that has been "tagged" with a locator beacon (116).
Abstract:
In various embodiments light redirection device positions of one or more optical chains are moved between image capture times while the position of the camera device including the multiple optical chains remains fixed. Some features relate to performing a zoom operation using multiple optical chains of the camera. Zoom settings may, and in some embodiments are, used in determining the angle to which the light redirection device should be set. In some embodiments different zoom focal length settings correspond to different scene capture areas for the optical chain with the moveable light redirection device. In some embodiments multiple optical chains are used in parallel, each with its own image sensor and light redirection device. Depth information is generated and used in some but not all embodiments to combine the images in a manner intended to minimize or avoid parallax distortions in the composite image which is produced.
Abstract:
An image capture accelerator performs accelerated processing of image data. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator includes accelerator circuitry including a pre-processing engine and a compression engine. The pre-processing engine is configured to perform accelerated processing on received image data, and the compression engine is configured to compress processed image data received from the pre-processing engine. In one embodiment, the image capture accelerator further includes a demultiplexer configured to receive image data captured by an image sensor array implemented within, for example, an image sensor chip. The demultiplexer may output the received image data to an image signal processor when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in a standard capture mode, and may output the received image data to the accelerator circuitry when the image data is captured by the image sensor array in an accelerated capture mode.