US 10,708,517 B2Granted

Image processing device that generates and selects between multiple image signals based on zoom selection

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSer Hoon Lee, Choon Seung Lee

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Abstract

An image processing device including a first lens, a second lens disposed on one side of the first lens, a third lens disposed on the other side of the first lens, a first image sensor which receives an input of a first image obtained from the first lens to generate a first image signal, a second image sensor which receives an input of a second image obtained from the second lens to generate a second image signal, a third image sensor which receives an input of a third image obtained from the third lens to generate a third image signal, a selector which receives the input of the second image signal and the third image signal, outputs the second image signal under a first condition, and outputs the third image signal, under a second condition different from the first condition and an image processor which performs image processing, using the first image signal and an output signal of the selector.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An image processing device comprising:

a camera module comprising
a first camera module comprising a first sensor configured to sense light from an object and generate a first image signal, and a first storage device storing first calibration data for the first camera module,
a second camera module comprising a second sensor configured to sense light from the object and generate a second image signal, and a second storage device storing second calibration data for the second camera module, and
a third camera module comprising a third sensor configured to sense light from the object and generate a third image signal, and a third storage device storing third calibration data for the third camera module;
and
an application processor separated from the first, second and third camera modules,
wherein the application processor includes
a first camera serial interface configured to receive the first image signal from the first camera module,
a second camera serial interface configured to receive the second image signal from the second camera module, wherein the first and second image signals are color image signals,
a third camera serial interface configured to receive the third image signal from the third camera module, and
wherein the application processor is configured to select one of the second image signal and the third image signal as a selected image signal based on a selection signal, and generate an output image based on the first image signal and the selected image signal,
wherein the selection signal includes a zoom selection signal which is changed in response to a scale ratio.

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An image processing device comprising:

a first camera module comprising a first sensor configured to generate a first image signal, a first lens and a first storage device storing first calibration data for the first camera module;
a second camera module comprising a second sensor configured to generate a second image signal, a second lens and a second storage device storing second calibration data for the second camera module;
a third camera module comprising a third sensor configured to generate a third image signal, a third lens and a third storage device storing third calibration data for the third camera module, wherein the first lens is disposed between the second lens and the third lens;
and
an application processor separated from the first, second and third camera modules and configured to generate an image output of an object based on the first image signal and one of the second image signal and the third image signal,
wherein the application processor includes
a first camera serial interface configured to receive the first image signal from the first camera module,
a second camera serial interface configured to receive the second image signal from the second camera module,
a third camera serial interface configured to receive the third image signal from the third camera module,
wherein the application processor includes a first image generator configured to output a first image output signal by processing the first image signal using the first calibration data in the first storage device, and to output a second image output signal by processing one of the second image signal and the third image signal using one of the second calibration data in the second storage device and the third calibration data in the third storage device, and
wherein the first image generator includes an adjusting unit configured to receive the first image output signal and the second image output signal and to perform a rectification for correcting a distortion of the first and second image output signals.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/427,127Filed 30 May 2019 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2017-00690402 Jun 2017
Published: US 2019/0281232 A112 Sep 2019
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 23/76
Circuitry for compensating brightness variation in the scene: by influencing the image signals
H04N 23/45
Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof: for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being…
H04N 23/69
Control of cameras or camera modules: control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
H04N 23/698
Control of cameras or camera modules: for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture

Family

Application15/844,205Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Dec 2017
US 2019/0281232 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Sep 2019
US 10,348,978 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0352169 A1Published application
US 10,708,517 B2This patent

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