Image stabilization related methods and apparatus

A camera device comprising:

• a plurality of optical chains;
• a module configured to detect an amount of motion;
• a module configured to produce a second reference image, from a first plurality of images captured by different optical chains of said camera device during a second time period, producing the second reference image including at least one of:
• i) selecting the second reference image from images captured by different optical chains during said second time period based on the detected amount of motion or ii) synthesizing a reference image from at least two of said first plurality of images captured by different optical chains during said second time period based on the detected amount of motion;
• and
• a module configured to use the second reference image and at least one other image in said first plurality of images to generate a composite image corresponding to said second time period.

A non-transitory computer readable media comprising stored instructions which when executed by a processor of an image processing system control the image processing system to:

• detect an amount of motion, said detected amount of motion being a detected amount of motion of a camera device including multiple optical chains or a detected amount of motion between an image corresponding to a second time period and an image corresponding to a first time period;
• produce a second reference image, from a first plurality of images captured by different optical chains of said camera device during the second time period, producing a second reference image including at least one of:
• i) selecting the second reference image from images captured by different optical chains during said second time period based on the detected amount of motion or ii) synthesizing a reference image from at least two of said first plurality of images captured by different optical chains during said second time period based on the detected amount of motion;
• and
• generate a composite image corresponding to said second time period from the second reference image and at least one other image in said first plurality of images.