US 12,294,688 B2
Hardware encoder for stereo stitching
Dmitry Ryuma, Marina Del Rey, CA (US); and Farid Zare Seisan, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to SNAP INC., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,786.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/201,935, filed on May 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377309 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 13/239 (2018.01); H04N 13/161 (2018.01); H04N 13/167 (2018.01); H04N 13/296 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/239 (2018.05) [H04N 13/161 (2018.05); H04N 13/167 (2018.05); H04N 13/296 (2018.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a first camera lens comprising a first image sensor;
a second camera lens comprising a second image sensor; and
a singular hardware encoder coupled to the first camera lens and the second camera lens, the singular hardware encoder to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by the singular hardware encoder, a single buffer comprising first image data from the first camera lens and second image data from the second camera lens, the single buffer received for a single activation of stitched frame encoding;
processing, by the singular hardware encoder, the first image data and the second image data in the single buffer; and
generating, by the singular hardware encoder, a single stitched encoded frame based on the processed first image data and the processed second image data, wherein each frame in the single stitched encoded frame comprises of a corresponding first image frame from the processed first image data and a corresponding second image from the processed second image data, the single stitched encoded frame generated in response to the single activation.