Patent ID: 8625001

Claim:
A system comprising: a processing apparatus operatively coupled to an image sensor, the processing apparatus being operable to: receive image frames from the image sensor in response to receipt of a user picture signal, wherein the received image frames comprise a set of image frames captured by the image sensor prior to reception of the user picture signal, during the reception of the user picture signal, and after the reception of the user picture signal, wherein the image frames captured by the image sensor prior to the reception of the user picture signal are based on receipt of a sensor input from one or more of: an orientation sensor, a proximity sensor, or an accelerometer, prior to the user picture signal; discard a first set of one or more image frames from the received image frames based on a determination that the first set of one or more image frames do not satisfy at least one quality criterion; discard a second set of one or more image frames from the remaining image frames based on a determination that the second set of one or more image frames do not compress to a size small enough to satisfy a compression threshold; compress one or more third image frames other than the first set of one or more image frames and the second set of one or more image frames for presentation thereof to a user.