SIMPLE METHOD FOR CALCULATING CAMERA DEFOCUS FROM AN IMAGE SCENE

Patent №

US 7,616,254

Granted

2009-11-10

Filed 2006

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11384135

An imaging acquisition system that generates a picture depth from an auto focus curve generated from picture of a three dimensional spatial scene is described. The auto focus curve comprises a step edge. The system generates the depth based on the step edge and a reference auto focus normalization curve.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.21
Knowledge representation0.03
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 232160085

SONY ELECTRONICS INC.

assignment · 232160085

Assignors

WONG, EARL QUONG, KUSHIDA, HIDENORI, NAKAMURA, MAKIBI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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