Television – Camera – system and detail – Camera image stabilization
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-09
2010-12-21
Villecco, John M (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Camera image stabilization
C348S169000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07855731
ABSTRACT:
An image vibration-compensating apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus and the method are applied in an image-capturing apparatus, such as a digital still camera (DSC) or digital video recorder (DVR), for compensating image vibration when capturing an image. The image vibration-compensating apparatus comprises an adaptive edge extractor, a sub-region movement detector, a frame motion calculator, and a correcting vector generator. The image vibration-compensating apparatus analyses the difference between the current image and the previous image, and outputs the correcting motion vector to achieve the function of image vibration-compensation. In the image vibration-compensating method, an accumulate compensation mode is used to prevent fast motion of an image frame which will cause discomfort of the user's eyes when a relatively large image vibration occurs in a short period.
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