Patent ID: 7847833
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for compressing digital images upon capture at a digital camera device, the method comprising: capturing a sequence of digital images; applying a first fast compression technique to the sequence of digital images to temporarily compress at least one of the digital images from the sequence of digital images upon capture; storing the sequence of digital images in an image buffer, wherein the at least one of the digital images is compressed with the first fast compression technique; deferring a second, thorough compression technique to a period of time when a user is not providing additional input to the digital camera device; and at the period of time, decompressing the at least one of the digital images that were temporarily compressed and applying the second, thorough compression technique, on a low-priority thread subordinate to a high-priority thread to the entire sequence of digital images after tasks in the high-priority thread have been processed in a multi-threaded execution environment of the digital camera device.