Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital auto-focusing apparatus and method
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Application No.: US12292467Application Date: 2008-11-19
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Publication No.: US08483504B2Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Jae-Guyn Lim , Joo-Young Kang , Hyun-Wook Ok , Seong-Deok Lee
- Applicant: Jae-Guyn Lim , Joo-Young Kang , Hyun-Wook Ok , Seong-Deok Lee
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-Si KR Suwon
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-Si KR Suwon
- Agency: Staas & Halsey LLP
- Priority: KR10-2007-0121094 20071126
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/40 ; G06K9/36 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/228 ; H04N5/225 ; G02B13/16 ; G06T15/40

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for digital auto-focus are provided. The apparatus includes a local block generator generating a local block from an input image, a distance-estimation unit estimating distances of each image of the local block, a focal-distance-setting unit setting one of the estimated distances of the local block image as a focal distance of the input image, a reblurred-image generator generating a reblurred image from the local block image, a reconstructed image generator generating an in-focus image focused to the estimated distances from the local block image, a local-block-image-matching unit matching the reblurred image to the in-focus image with different weight values based on the set focal distance, and a final-image generator generating a final image by summing the matched local block images.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090136148A1 Digital auto-focusing apparatus and method Public/Granted day:2009-05-28
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