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US 11,113,797 B1Granted
Passive flash imaging
AssigneeSnap Inc.
InventorsNewar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd
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Abstract
A passive flash system for illuminating images being captured on a user device while maintaining preview of the content being captured. The passive flash system can display a portion of a screen in as an elevated brightness element that is brighter than the content being captured. The elevated brightness element can surround or overlap the content being captured to passively increase the lighting of the imaged environment.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- generating, using one or more processors of a user device, an image sequence using an image sensor of the user device;
- displaying, on a display device of the user device, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- generating an elevated brightness element on the display device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element being brighter than the live preview window in the display device;
- capturing one or more images generated by the image sensor while the elevated brightness element and the live preview window are displayed on the display device;
- and
- resizing the live preview window in the display device, wherein the elevated brightness element is generated in an area of the display device that was occupied by the live preview window prior to resizing.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors of a machine;
- a display device;
- an image sensor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- generating an image sequence using the image sensor;
- displaying, on the display device, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- generating an elevated brightness element on the display device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element being brighter than the live preview window in the display device;
- capturing one or more images generated by the image sensor while the elevated brightness element and the live preview window are displayed on the display device;
- and
- resizing the live preview window in the display device, wherein the elevated brightness element is generated in an area of the display device that was occupied by the live preview window prior to resizing.
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A machine-readable storage device embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- generating an image sequence using an image sensor;
- displaying, on a display device, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- generating an elevated brightness element on the display device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element being brighter than the live preview window in the display device;
- capturing one or more images generated by the image sensor while the elevated brightness element and the live preview window are displayed on the display device;
- and
- resizing the live preview window in the display device, wherein the elevated brightness element is generated in an area of the display device that was occupied by the live preview window prior to resizing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.