Patent ID: 11880984
Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for tracking-based motion deblurring, the method comprising:
providing an image sensor in communication with a processor;
accessing, by the processor, image data associated with a scene captured by the image sensor;
tracking, by the processor, motion associated with a blurred object in the scene over multiple frames of the image data; and
performing coded exposure deblurring of the scene, including
modulating one or more photodiodes of the image sensor to track the blurred object in the scene across the multiple frames of the image data, and
encoding motion blur associated with the blurred object in the scene from the image data captured by the image sensor as the blurred object is tracked across the multiple frames of the image data,

wherein deblurring of the blurred object of the scene is accommodated by the motion blur as encoded and occurs subsequent to the tracking and identification of the blurred object, and
wherein tracking the blurred object comprises applying mean shift tracking to the image data including computing a color histogram for every frame of the multiple frames of the image data to find a centroid of the blurred object, the mean shift tracking accommodating automatic identification of the blurred object prior to deconvolution.