Portable electronic devices with integrated image/video compositing
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a display;
a first digital camera;
a second digital camera;
a memory; and
a processor programmed to perform instructions to cause the apparatus to;
acquire, using the first digital camera, a first set of images;
select a first image from the first set of images, the first image comprising;
foreground subject matter; and
a background scene;
perform a segmentation operation on the first image to segment the first image into at least;
a foreground region comprising at least a portion of the foreground subject matter; and
a background region comprising at least a portion of the background scene;
extract a second image from the first image, wherein the second image comprises the foreground region of the first image;
acquire, using the second digital camera, a second set of images, wherein the second set of images are acquired concurrently with the first set of images;
select a third image from the second set of images;
generate a composite image by compositing the second image onto the third image; and
display the composite image on the display.
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Abstract
Digital imagery is composed or composited within a smartphone or other portable electronic device to merge foreground and background subject matter acquired simultaneously with different cameras or acquired at different times with the same camera. A processor stores the digital imagery along with information derived or used by an operation to differentiate the foreground subject matter from the background scene, which may be a digital matting operation, and/or may involve finding an edge or an outline of the foreground subject matter. The foreground subject matter and the background scene may be stored as different graphical layers in the memory. A user control such as a touchscreen may enable a user to select and resize or reposition the foreground subject matter on a background scene of a separately acquired image. The digital imagery may constitute a still image or a sequence of images representative of motion video.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a display; a first digital camera; a second digital camera; a memory; and a processor programmed to perform instructions to cause the apparatus to; acquire, using the first digital camera, a first set of images; select a first image from the first set of images, the first image comprising; foreground subject matter; and a background scene; perform a segmentation operation on the first image to segment the first image into at least; a foreground region comprising at least a portion of the foreground subject matter; and a background region comprising at least a portion of the background scene; extract a second image from the first image, wherein the second image comprises the foreground region of the first image; acquire, using the second digital camera, a second set of images, wherein the second set of images are acquired concurrently with the first set of images; select a third image from the second set of images; generate a composite image by compositing the second image onto the third image; and display the composite image on the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method, comprising:
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acquiring, using a first digital camera, a first set of images; selecting a first image from the first set of images, the first image comprising; foreground subject matter; and a background scene; performing a segmentation operation on the first image to segment the first image into at least; a foreground region comprising at least a portion of the foreground subject matter; and a background region comprising at least a portion of the background scene; extracting a second image from the first image, wherein the second image comprises the foreground region of the first image; acquiring, using a second digital camera, a second set of images, wherein the second set of images are acquired concurrently with the first set of images; selecting a third image from the second set of images; generating a composite image by compositing the second image onto the third image; and displaying the composite image on a display. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor, the instructions comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
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acquire, using a first digital camera, a first set of images; select a first image from the first set of images, the first image comprising; foreground subject matter; and a background scene; perform a segmentation operation on the first image to segment the first image into at least; a foreground region comprising at least a portion of the foreground subject matter; and a background region comprising at least a portion of the background scene; extract a second image from the first image, wherein the second image comprises the foreground region of the first image; acquire, using a second digital camera, a second set of images, wherein the second set of images are acquired concurrently with the first set of images; select a third image from the second set of images; generate a composite image by compositing the second image onto the third image; and display the composite image on a display. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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