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.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating, using one or more processors of a device, an image sequence using an image sensor of the device;
- displaying, in a first portion of a display of the device, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- and
- generating an elevated brightness element in a second portion of the display of the device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element in the second portion being brighter than the live preview window in the first portion, wherein the second portion of the display overlaps with the first portion of the display.
A device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a display;
- an image sensor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
- generating, using the one or more processors, an image sequence using the image sensor;
- displaying, in a first portion of the display, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- and
- generating an elevated brightness element in a second portion of the display of the device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element in the second portion being brighter than the live preview window in the first portion, wherein the second portion of the display overlaps with the first portion of the display.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage device embodying instructions that, when executed by a device, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
- generating an image sequence using an image sensor of the device;
- displaying, in a first portion of a display of the device, the image sequence in a live preview window;
- and
- generating an elevated brightness element in a second portion of the display of the device while the live preview window is displaying the image sequence, the elevated brightness element in the second portion being brighter than the live preview window in the first portion, wherein the second portion of the display overlaps with the first portion of the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.