Patent ID: 8803994
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for image capture using an image capture device which includes an imaging assembly having a spectral capture response whose spectral detection sensitivity is tunable in wavelength in accordance with a capture parameter, the method comprising: applying a default capture parameter to the imaging assembly, wherein the default capture parameter has high spectral dimensionality; capturing a sample image of a scene with the spectral capture response of the imaging assembly being tuned in wavelength by the default capture parameter; analyzing the sample image to identify multiple different regions in the scene, wherein each such region shares similar imaging properties that are dissimilar from imaging properties in other regions of the scene; deriving a spectral mask based on the analysis, wherein the spectral mask is derived so as to achieve image capture tailored to the imaging properties of each different region of the scene; applying the spectral mask as the capture parameter to the imaging assembly; and capturing and storing a final image of the scene with the spectral capture response of the imaging assembly being tuned in wavelength by the applied spectral mask as the capture parameter.