US 2003/0151679 A1 · System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device

Abstract

A digital image capture and processing system, comprising a lens coupled to a lens control element is disclosed. The image capture system includes an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens, and a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens control element. The memory element includes image capture software, where the image capture software causes the lens and the image sensor to capture at least two images, each of the at least two images captured using a varying parameter and stored as a single file where the at least two images are combined to form a new image having at least one characteristic different from corresponding characteristics of the at least two images.

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Dependent claims

A digital image capture and processing system, comprising:

a lens coupled to a lens control element;
an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens;
and
a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens control element, the memory element including image capture software, where the image capture software cause the lens and the image sensor to capture at least two images, each of the at least two images captured using a varying parameter and stored as a single file, where the at least two images are combined to form a new image having at least one characteristic different from corresponding characteristics of the at least two images.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/071,026Filed 8 Feb 2002

Published

14 Aug 2003

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04N 5/262
Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment: studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special…
H04N 5/772
Between a recording apparatus and a television camera: the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
H04N 23/676
Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals: bracketing for image capture at varying focusing conditions
H04N 25/60
Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof: noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise

System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device

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System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device

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Abstract

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