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US 8,803,944 B2Granted
Controller in a camera for creating a registered video image
AssigneeSpatial Cam LLC
InventorPeter Lablans
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to create and display panoramic images on a mobile device are disclosed. Such a mobile device can be a mobile phone. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a panoramic image. A panoramic image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic camera is applied in a computer gaming system.
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A camera, comprising:
- a portable and mobile body containing a first and a second imaging unit, each imaging unit including a lens and an image sensor, wherein the image sensor of the first imaging unit and the image sensor of the second imaging unit are rotationally misaligned in the camera, wherein an angle of rotational misalignment is determined during a calibration;
- a controller to apply camera setting data generated during the calibration based on the determined angle of rotational misalignment to store raw image data generated by an active area of the image sensor of the first imaging unit determined by the camera setting data and raw image data generated by an active area smaller than a total active area of the image sensor of the second imaging unit determined by the camera setting data as a rotationally aligned and registered image on a memory on the camera in a raw data format prior to demosaicing the raw image data generated by the image sensors;
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- a processor to perform the demosaicing on the rotationally aligned and registered image in raw data format, wherein demosaicing includes at least one step selected from the group of steps consisting of interpolation, smoothing, filtering and intensity adjustment.
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A camera, comprising:
- a body of a mobile phone containing a first and a second imaging unit, each imaging unit including a lens and an image sensor, wherein the image sensor of the first imaging unit and the image sensor of the second imaging unit are rotationally misaligned in the camera wherein a size of a rotational misalignment angle is determined during a calibration;
- a controller to apply data generated during the calibration based on the size of the rotational misalignment angle to store image data generated by the image sensor of the first imaging unit and the image sensor of the second imaging unit as a rotationally aligned and registered image on a memory in a raw data format prior to demosaicing;
- a processor to perform the demosaicing on the rotationally aligned and registered image in raw data format;
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- a display to display an image based on the rotationally aligned and registered image after the processor has performed the demosaicing, wherein demosaicing includes at least one step selected from the group of steps consisting of interpolation, smoothing, filtering and intensity adjustment.
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A method to display a registered image, comprising:
- obtaining a first set of image data of a scene from a first image sensor and a second set of image data of the scene from a second image sensor, the first image sensor and second image sensor being part of imaging units contained in a single body;
- storing in a memory calibration data that is derived from a rotational misalignment angle between the first image sensor and the second image sensor in the body that is determined during a calibration;
- applying the calibration data by a controller to store on a memory enabled to hold image data generated by the first image sensor and by the second image sensor as a rotationally aligned and registered image in a raw data format prior to demosaicing;
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- performing by a processor of the demosaicing on the rotationally aligned and registered image in a raw data format, wherein demosaicing includes at least one step selected from the group of steps consisting of interpolation, smoothing, filtering and intensity adjustment;
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- providing data based on the demosaicing to a display to be displayed as the registered image.
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