System and method of adjusting a camera based on image data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994845-B2
Application number	US-201213458595-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2012
Priority date	Apr 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods of adjusting camera image data include receiving image data from a visible light camera module are described. A quality factor of the image data can be determined based on at least one predetermined characteristic. The quality factor can be compared to a predetermined threshold. Image data from a non-visible light camera module can be requested when the quality factor is below the predetermined threshold. Image data from the non-visible light camera module can be received in response to the request. The received image data from the visible light camera module can be augmented with the received image data from the non-visible light camera module to form hybrid image data. The image sensor can be adjusted based on a quality factor of the hybrid image such that the visible light camera captures a subsequent image having a quality factor that meets or is greater than the predetermined threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting camera image data comprising:
determining a quality factor of image data generated by a visible light camera module based on at least one characteristic;
comparing the quality factor to a first threshold;
receiving non-visible light image data from a non-visible light camera module at a predetermined ratio to image data from the visible light camera module;
augmenting the image data from the visible light camera module with the n…

Assignees

• Mankowski Peter
• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Mankowski Peter

Classifications

• H04N23/951

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/64 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/11

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/23232

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/332

  Electricity · mapped topic