According to the patent description Olympus is working on a technology that allow the camera / photographer to set different exposures for different image areas, so finally we will see a perfect single shot HDR image from the camera, however it takes approx 2 to 3 years of time to turn a patent into reality.
As you can see in the image users can set different Exposure for single shot just by touching the display of the camera.
Description and self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2014-39116
- Publication date 2014.2.27
- Filing date 2012.8.13
- Patents
- I do cumulative addition of image
- Respect to a particular region, and performs the gain and the gain up-down
- Set the area by touch panel
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