Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image stabilization using striped output transformation unit
- Patent Title (中): 使用条纹输出变换单元的图像稳定
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Application No.: US13557109Application Date: 2012-07-24
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Publication No.: US09232139B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Christopher L. Mills
- Applicant: Christopher L. Mills
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/77 ; H04N5/907 ; H04N5/262

Abstract:
An image signal processor of a device, apparatus, or computing system that includes a camera capable of capturing video clips may be configured to apply non-warping and warping transformations (including image stabilization transformations) to image data received from the camera's image sensor. The transformations may be applied piecewise to pixels of the image data gathered into multiple line buffers. The line buffers may be divided into vertical slices, each of which may be processed in parallel by a respective portion of the image signal processor circuitry (or circuitry of an output rescaling unit thereof). The image signal processor may not write the received image data to system memory until after the transformations have been performed. By leveraging existing filters and scalers of the image signal processor, rather than a CPU or GPU, image stabilization may be provided that consumes half of the bandwidth and power consumed by existing techniques.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140028876A1 IMAGE STABILIZATION USING STRIPED OUTPUT TRANSFORMATION UNIT Public/Granted day:2014-01-30
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