H04N 23/676
Bracketing for image capture at varying focusing conditions
Official title: {Bracketing for image capture at varying focusing conditions}
H04N23/676 (Bracketing for image capture at varying focusing conditions) appears on 348 US grants and 413 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 348
- Published applications
- 413
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 750
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2024 | 21 | 14 |
| 2025 | 15 | 12 |
| 2026 | 6 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light microscope with automatic focusing28 Jul 2026US 12,693,511 B2Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
- Metrology system utilizing scan lens for points-from-focus type processes16 Jun 2026US 12,656,593 B2Mitutoyo Corporation
- Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium9 Jun 2026US 12,652,465 B2NEC Corporation
- Control device and control method5 May 2026US 12,621,561 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Fast video capture and sensor adjustment13 Jan 2026US 12,526,531 B2Snap Inc.
- All-in-focus image generation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227621 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Cell observation apparatus and imaging method used in cell observation apparatus16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201307 A1Kataoka Corporation
- Methods and apparatus for autofocus for image capture systems9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197556 A1Intel Corporation
- Device for imaging plurality of subjects of different types, method for controlling device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium4 Jun 2026US 2026/0156357 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- In-focus degree acquisition method, omnifocal-image generation method, and a non-transitory storage medium storing program30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120252 A1SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Focused plenoptic camera employing microlenses with different focal lengths426US 8,400,555 B1Adobe Systems Incorporated · 2013
- Depth-of-field control apparatus and image pickup apparatus having the same therein123US 5,282,045 AHitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Image optimization techniques using depth planes121US 9,704,250 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Focus specification and focus stabilization71US 9,549,125 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Video camera having a vibrating image-processing operation67US 5,307,170 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1994