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Image capture using display device as light source

  • US 8,970,776 B2
  • Filed: 06/11/2012
  • Issued: 03/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of capturing digital images, comprising:

  • evaluating, by a mobile device, a quality of an image of a target environment based on pixel intensity distribution of the image of the target environment, wherein the image has a moving portion and a nonmoving portion;

    determining a representation of a color distribution of the image of the target environment, wherein the representation represents one of a color distribution of only the nonmoving portion of the image and a color distribution of only the moving portion of the image;

    determining, by the mobile device, a flash color based on the representation;

    illuminating a target in the target environment with light emitted from a device configured to emit the light at the flash color; and

    capturing, by the mobile device, a digital image of the illuminated target.

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