H04N 23/959
By adjusting depth of field during image capture
Official title: by adjusting depth of field during image capture, e.g. maximising or setting range based on scene characteristics
H04N23/959 (By adjusting depth of field during image capture) appears on 617 US grants and 712 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Image sensing device for correcting depth information29 Sep 2026US 12,751,098 B2SK hynix Inc.
- User interface for camera effects22 Sep 2026US 12,744,990 B2Apple Inc.
- Three-dimensional scanner and control method8 Sep 2026US 12,727,975 B2J. Morita Mfg. Corp.
- User interfaces for altering visual media4 Aug 2026US 12,701,334 B2Apple Inc.
- Light microscope with automatic focusing28 Jul 2026US 12,693,511 B2Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
- Depth sensing techniques for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270556 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Method, apparatus and device, and storage medium for imaging27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255058 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Information processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236613 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Biological information acquisition device and biological information acquisition method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237238 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Imaging apparatus and image processing method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222683 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- User interface for camera effects195US 9,716,825 B1Apple Inc. · 2017
- Plenoptic camera148US 7,620,309 B2Adobe Systems Incorporated · 2009
- Intelligent manual adjustment of an image control element126US 9,948,852 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2018
- Focus warning system for a manually-focused still video camera having an electronic viewfinder124US 4,739,411 AEastman Kodak Company · 1988
- Depth-of-field control apparatus and image pickup apparatus having the same therein123US 5,282,045 AHitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994