Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for auto-focus control of digital camera
- Patent Title (中): 数码相机自动对焦控制方法及装置
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Application No.: US13004472Application Date: 2011-01-11
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Publication No.: US08315512B2Publication Date: 2012-11-20
- Inventor: Woon-Tahk Sung , Byung-Kwon Kang , Jae-Sik Sohn
- Applicant: Woon-Tahk Sung , Byung-Kwon Kang , Jae-Sik Sohn
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2010-0002854 20100112
- Main IPC: G03B13/32
- IPC: G03B13/32

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for auto-focus control of a digital camera, the method including moving a focus lens of the digital camera to a position for a longest-distance photographing, and then extracting an edge value according to a corresponding position while moving the focus lens by a preset interval in a direction toward an image sensor; estimating a form of a preset function based on the extracted edge values, and calculating a maximum value of the estimated function; calculating a difference between a maximum value of the preset function calculated at a first current position of the focus lens and a maximum value of the preset function calculated at a previous position of the focus lens; and moving the focus lens to a position corresponding to a currently-calculated maximum value of the preset function when the difference between the maximum value of the preset function calculated at the first current position of the focus lens and the maximum value of the preset function calculated at the previous position of the focus lens is less than or equal to a preset threshold value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110170846A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTO-FOCUS CONTROL OF DIGITAL CAMERA Public/Granted day:2011-07-14
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