Patent ID: 11962908
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A method, comprising:
receiving a plurality of image frames captured by a digital camera unit configured to capture images in a first image capturing mode and a second image capturing mode, the plurality of image frames being captured in the first image capturing mode, wherein the plurality of image frames are captured in a same capturing session; and
prior to processing the received plurality of image frames in the first image capturing mode:
analyzing automatically the received plurality of image frames captured in the first image capturing mode;
based at least on the analyzing, suggest to a user, the second image capturing mode to process at least one image frame from the received plurality of image frames captured in the first image capturing mode, the first image capturing mode being different than the second image capturing mode;
based at least on the suggesting, receive, from the user, a request to process, in the second image capturing mode, the at least one image frame from the received plurality of image frames captured in the first image capturing mode; and
based at least on the requesting, processing using the second image capturing mode, the at least one image frame from the received plurality of image frames captured in the first image capturing mode.