Patent ID: 8619149
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera, the camera comprising: an image sensor configured to generate a digital image for display to a user by sampling light from an image scene during a sample time T, the image sensor further configured to generate a series of N number of motion frames that enable a determination of a camera motion that occurs during acquisition of the digital image, wherein the N number of motion frames are generated during each of a series of N number of sub-intervals of sample time T, wherein the image sensor generates the motion frames by scanning out a set of pixel values contained in a sub-region of the image sensor, wherein dimensions of the sub-region are smaller than dimensions of the digital image displayed to the user; an image processor configured to receive the motion frames from the image sensor and to determine camera motion in response to the motion frames; and a user interface that enables a user of the camera to select the sub-region prior to the image sensor generating the digital image.