Patent ID: 9749524
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method, comprising: sensing, with motion sensors of at least one motion-estimating device of an image-capturing system, sensor values during a sweep motion of the image-capturing system; determining motion data having a first frequency of sensor values including at least one of acceleration data and angular velocity data using the sensor values of the motion sensors of the at least one motion-estimating device; estimating, with a motion module, a first direction of the sweep motion of the image-capturing system and a first confidence level associated with the first direction based on the motion data; estimating, with a vision module, a second direction of the sweep motion of the image-capturing system based on visual data having a second frequency of image capture that is associated with images captured at the second frequency by an image-capturing device of the image-capturing system during the sweep motion of the image-capturing system; and selecting, with a manager module, the first direction or the second direction of the image-capturing system, wherein the motion module is decoupled from the vision module and the motion module automatically provides the first direction of the sweep motion that is based on the motion data of the motion sensors to the manager module and the vision module automatically provides the second direction of the sweep motion that is based on the visual data to the manager module.