Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image capturing device and digital zooming method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 图像捕获装置及其数字变焦方法
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Application No.: US14571021Application Date: 2014-12-15
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Publication No.: US09325899B1Publication Date: 2016-04-26
- Inventor: Hong-Long Chou , Yi-Hong Tseng , Wen-Yan Chang , Yu-Chih Wang , Tsan-Wei Wang , Yi-Yi Yu
- Applicant: Altek Semiconductor Corp.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee: Altek Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: J.C. Patents
- Priority: TW103139384A 20141113
- Main IPC: H04N5/345
- IPC: H04N5/345 ; H04N5/265 ; H04N5/232 ; G06T3/00 ; G06T3/40 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
An image capturing device and a digital zooming method thereof are proposed in the invention. The method includes the following steps. A scene is captured by a primary lens and a secondary lens to generate a primary image and a secondary image. Image rectification is then performed on the primary and the secondary images to obtain two corresponding rectified images. Feature points detected and matched from the two rectified images are used to determine a corresponding overlapping region, respectively. Pixel displacement and depth map in the two overlapping regions could be calculated and estimated. Image zooming and warping techniques are performed on the two rectified images to obtain corresponding warped images using a recalculated homography matrix according to each specific zooming factor. Finally, the two overlapping regions in the warped image are fused by a weighted blending approach to generate a digital zoomed image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160142627A1 IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND DIGITAL ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-05-19
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