Default calibrated sensor module settings

• US 10,423,569 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kang, Jinman, Marathe, Amit A
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Chia Wei A
• Application Number:
  US15/329,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20170322903A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,883 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0283 for data storage and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/177 Initialisation or configuration control processor initialisation G06F9/4405
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/002 for television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

Examples of a system, method, and machine-readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions executable by a processor are disclosed herein. An example of the machine-readable non-transitory storage medium includes instructions executable by a processor to allow selection of a capture mode of a sensor module to record still images and/or a video mode of the sensor module to record video, retrieve default calibrated sensor module settings from a persistent memory, allow creation of at least one user defined sensor module setting that differs from one of the default calibrated sensor module settings, and utilize the at least one user defined sensor module setting along with the remaining default calibrated sensor module settings with the selected sensor module mode.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a sensor module including a capture mode to record still images and a video mode to record video;

a persistent memory to store a plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to use with the sensor module in the capture mode and the video mode;

an application engine to allow creation of a given user defined sensor module setting that differs from a given default calibrated sensor module setting of the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to use with the sensor module in one of the capture mode and the video mode in place of the given default calibrated sensor module setting; and

a memory other than the persistent memory to store the given user defined sensor module setting to use with the sensor module in one of the capture mode and the video mode along with remaining default calibrated sensor module settings of the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings from the persistent memory.

2. The system of Claim 1, further comprising a restore sensor module settings engine to allow removal of the given user defined sensor module setting from the memory and replacement of the removed given user defined sensor module setting with a corresponding default calibrated sensor module setting to use with the sensor module.

3. The system of Claim 1, further comprising a monitoring engine to retrieve the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings from the persistent memory and to restore the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to the memory based on a loss of power to the sensor module.

4. The system of Claim 1, wherein the sensor module includes a photosensitive member and an illumination source, and further wherein the memory includes an additional persistent memory.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the application engine includes a processor and a machine-readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions executable by the processor to allow creation of the given user defined sensor module setting that differs from one of the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to use with the sensor module in one of the capture mode and the video mode.

6. The system of Claim 1, further comprising a calibration engine to create the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to address unit by unit variations between different sensor modules.

7. A method, comprising:

creating a set of default calibrated sensor module settings to use with different sensor modules;

storing the default calibrated sensor module settings in a persistent memory to use with one of the sensor modules in a capture mode to record still images and a video mode to record video;

allowing creation of a given user defined sensor module setting that differs from a given default calibrated sensor module setting of the set of default calibrated sensor module settings to be used in place of the given default calibrated sensor module setting; and

storing, in a memory other than the persistent memory, the given user defined sensor module setting with one of the capture mode and the video mode along with remaining default calibrated sensor module settings of the set of default calibrated sensor module settings.

8. The method of Claim 7, further comprising retrieving the default calibrated sensor module settings from the persistent memory based on a loss of power to the sensor module and utilizing the default calibrated sensor module settings with one of the capture mode and the video mode.

9. The method of Claim 7, wherein the sensor module includes a photosensitive member and an illumination source, and further wherein creating a set of default calibrated sensor module settings to use with different sensor modules includes addressing unit by unit variations between different sensor modules.

10. The method of Claim 7, further comprising executing a set of instructions on a machine-readable non-transitory storage medium via a processor to one of create the set of default calibrated sensor module settings, create the given user defined sensor module setting, and utilize the given user defined sensor module setting with one of the capture mode and the video mode along with the remaining default calibrated sensor module settings.

11. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

allow selection of one of a capture mode of a sensor module to record still images and a video mode of the sensor module to record video;

retrieve a plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings from a persistent memory;

allow creation of a given user defined sensor module setting that differs from a given default calibrated sensor module setting of the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to be used in place of the given default calibrated sensor module setting;

store the given user defined sensor module setting along with the remaining default calibrated sensor module settings of the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings in a memory other than the persistent memory; and

utilize the given user defined sensor module setting along with the plurality of remaining default calibrated sensor module settings from the persistent memory, with the selected sensor module mode.

12. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of Claim 11, further comprising additional instructions executable by a processor to allow replacement of the given user defined sensor module setting with a corresponding default calibrated sensor module setting.

13. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of Claim 11, further comprising additional instructions executable by a processor to retrieve the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings from the persistent memory based on a loss of power to the sensor module and to utilize the default calibrated sensor module settings with the sensor module.

14. The machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11, further comprising additional instructions executable by a processor to create the plurality of default calibrated sensor module settings to address unit by unit variations between different sensor modules.