Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Computational camera using fusion of image sensors
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Application No.: US14487785Application Date: 2014-09-16
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Publication No.: US09654700B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Ivan Kovtun , Volodymyr Kysenko , Yuriy Musatenko , Adrian M Proca , Philip S Stetson , Yevhen Ivannikov
- Applicant: Google Technology Holdings LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
- Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Wolfe-SBMC
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N9/64 ; H04N5/235

Abstract:
A camera device includes monochromatic and color image sensors that capture an image as a clear image in monochrome and as a Bayer image. The camera device implements image processing algorithms to produce an enhanced, high-resolution HDR color image. The Bayer image is demosaiced to generate an initial color image, and a disparity map is generated to establish correspondence between pixels of the initial color image and clear image. A mapped color image is generated to map the initial color image onto the clear image. A denoised clear image is applied as a guide image of a guided filter that filters the mapped color image to generate a filtered color image. The filtered color image and the denoised clear image are then fused to produce an enhanced, high-resolution HDR color image, and the disparity map and the mapped color image are updated based on the enhanced, high-resolution HDR color image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160080626A1 Computational Camera Using Fusion of Image Sensors Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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