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US 2017/0374265 A1Published application
Systems and methods for time synched high speed flash
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorKeir Finlow-Bates
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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorKeir Finlow-Bates
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Systems and methods are disclosed for remotely activating a flash at a determined time, where a camera and a flash are temporally synchronized using a time signal received from a GPS satellite. One embodiment includes a system having a camera that includes an image sensor, a GPS receiver configured to receive time information, a processor configured to determine an image capture time t1 for capturing the image of the scene, the image capture time t1 being a time indicative of a time derived from time information received from the GPS satellite, and a camera communication module configured to wirelessly communicate with an illumination system to transmit flash information to the illumination system, the flash information including the image capture time t1, and capture an image of the scene with the camera at the image capture time t1.
A system, comprising:
A method for illuminating and capturing an image of a scene using a camera device, the camera device wirelessly paired to a flash for wireless communication, comprising:
A system for capturing an image of a scene, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.