METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SERVER FOR GENERATING DIGITALLY PROCESSED PICTURES

• US 20150264246A1
• Filed: 01/02/2015
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sartor, Piergiorgio, Zimmermann, Klaus
• Granted Patent: US 9,693,010 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A method for generating a digitally processed picture comprises receiving, from an electronic device, raw image data generated by an image sensor of the electronic device and auxiliary sensor data produced by an auxiliary sensor at the electronic device. The method further comprises processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture taking into account said auxiliary sensor data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from an electronic device, raw image data generated by an image sensor of the electronic device, and auxiliary sensor data produced by an auxiliary sensor at the electronic device; and

processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture taking into account said auxiliary sensor data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving raw image data and auxiliary sensor data and the processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture is performed by a remote image processing server, the method further comprising:

generating, by said electronic device, raw image data using an image sensor;

acquiring, by said electronic device, auxiliary sensor data from an auxiliary sensor; and

transferring, by said electronic device, said raw image data and said auxiliary sensor data to the remote image processing server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said auxiliary sensor data comprises at least one of audio data, electronic device settings, operational electronic device data, user data, positional data, movement data, temperature data, meteorological data, and radio data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises performing an image manipulation based on said auxiliary sensor data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by said remote image processing server, said digitally processed picture to the electronic device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises a device-type-dependent processing of raw image data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises an accelerometer-based processing of the raw image data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises a location-based processing of raw image data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises a temperature-dependent processing of raw image data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein processing said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture comprises a device-setting-dependent processing of raw image data.

11. An electronic device comprising:

an image sensor for sensing an image and for generating raw image data representing said image;

an auxiliary sensor for acquiring auxiliary sensor data; and

a transmitter for transferring said raw image data and said auxiliary sensor data to a remote image processing server, wherein said remote image processing server is configured to process said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture taking into account said auxiliary sensor data.

12. A server comprising a processor which is configured to

receive raw image data;

receive auxiliary sensor data; and

process said raw image data to generate a digitally processed picture taking into account said auxiliary sensor data.

13. A cloud server system which provides a cloud service for processing raw image data, the cloud server system comprising one or more servers as claimed in claim 12.