Auto picture alignment correction
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorAmy Aimei Han
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Abstract
A camera device is disclosed. The camera device includes a sensor to capture an image, a sensor to detect direction of gravity and a processor configured to extract a part of the image to produce a horizontally aligned image from the image using the detected direction of gravity.
Claims39
A device, comprising:
- an image sensor to capture an image;
- an orientation sensor to detect direction of gravity;
- and
- a processor configured to rotate the image using the direction of gravity to produce a horizontally aligned image.
A method, comprising:
- capturing an image using a camera device;
- stabilizing the image to remove or reduce effects of vibrations of the camera device during the capturing of the image;
- detecting a direction of gravity using a sensor;
- and
- transmitting to an external device a data stream of image data defining the image and the direction of gravity.
A computer program product comprising program code stored in a computer readable storage medium, the program code being executable by a processor of a device to process a data stream by receiving the data stream comprising image data defining a captured image and the direction of gravity when the image was captured;
- and
- extracting a horizontally aligned image from the image data based on the direction of gravity in the data stream.
A mobile telephone, comprising:
- a housing;
- hardware within the housing for making and receiving phone calls;
- an image sensor within the housing to capture an image;
- an orientation sensor within the housing to detect a direction of gravity;
- and
- a processor configured to rotate the image using the direction of gravity to produce a horizontally aligned image.
A method, comprising:
- capturing an image using a camera device that forms part of a mobile telephone;
- stabilizing the image to remove or reduce effects of vibrations of the camera device during the capturing of the image;
- detecting a direction of gravity using a sensor;
- and
- rotating the image using the direction of gravity to produce a horizontally aligned image.
A method, comprising:
- capturing an image using a camera device that forms part of a mobile telephone;
- detecting a direction of gravity using a sensor;
- and
- rotating the image using the direction of gravity to produce a horizontally aligned image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.