http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/ Engadget Comments for Canon patent application takes in-camera HDR to the pixel level http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
Canon, you rock. You've never failed me with your EOS 550D.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
Totally awesome and if they save this as RAW then incredibly awesome. And if they are able to do all this in a single shutter then finally HDR will be possible of moving content, which would be fully incredibly awesome.

You'd need some seriously fast processing though.

Shall we suspect this won't be on a prosumer model to start with.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Not even HDR, I would think this would work well for tricky exposure situations as well. ]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
Actually, I would even like to see it be able to do normal dynamic range even compared to what all current digital cameras can do.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
I could of swore they had an invite.. I would figure you guys would have some sort of post about it even though it hasnt started.. (i.e. how its been done for every other conference [most recently google i/o and wwdc])

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http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/exr/features/page_02.html]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
Was about to say exactly that, and they're on their third model.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Jun 23rd 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
Doesn't CHDK do something like this in existing cameras? I might have to look into that.

I guess if this allows you to 'see' the result right away, that would be an improvement.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/
This way you collect more photons on the dark parts of the image, and at the same time you avoid saturating the pixels on the bright parts. Human eyes have much higher dynamic range than digital cameras, that's why only some pictures with uniform ilumination and materials look real. And that's why a combining 3 or 5 pictures taken with different exposures gives a more convincing result.

Fujifilm does this with the EXR sensor, half the pixels shot one exposure, the other half shot that exposure -1 EV, or -2 EV: Then the software conbines both. This is done in a single shot, so yes, HDR of objects in movement is possible since a year ago.]]>Jun 23rd 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/canon-patent-application-takes-in-camera-hdr-to-the-pixel-level/Its been done already. I design systems that use cameras that have the same capability. They have been around for at least 5 years.
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Check out a rant I did on this
http://froknowsphoto.com/hdr-rant-2-and-samples/

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