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US 10,257,506 B2Granted
Method of obtaining depth information and display apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung Joo Suh, Chang Kyu Choi, Du Sik Park
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Abstract
A method of obtaining depth information and a display apparatus may adjust a sensor area of a sensor panel based on a distance from an object, and may obtain depth information of the object based on the adjusted sensor area.
Claims34
A method of obtaining depth information using a display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the method comprising:
- adjusting a sensor area of the sensor panel based on a reference distance,
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the adjusting comprises adjusting the length of the side of the sensor area based on the reference distance;
- obtaining depth information of an object based on the adjusted sensor area;
- detecting sensor data on a plurality of image capturing areas of the sensor panel;
- selecting, for each image capturing area, a quantity of image data for image decoding;
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- generating multi-view images of the object by decoding the selected quantity of image data for each respective image capturing area,
- wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from the object,
- wherein in the adjusting of the sensor area, the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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A method of obtaining depth information of an object using a display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the method comprising:
- estimating a reference distance, wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from the object;
- selecting sensor data from a sensor area of the sensor panel that changes based on the reference distance;
- generating multi-view images of the object using the sensor data;
- extracting partial images of the object from the multi-view images;
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- acquiring a depth image of the object using the multi-view images by combining the partial images from the multi-view images,
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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A method of estimating depth information of an object using a display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the method comprising:
- generating multi-view images of the object using sensor data that is selected from a sensor area of the sensor panel that changes based on a reference distance, wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from the object;
- generating a plurality of refocused images using the multi-view images;
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- acquiring a depth image of the object using first depth information associated with points of the generated multi-view images and second depth information associated with edges of the plurality of refocused images;
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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A display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the display apparatus comprising:
- a reference distance estimating unit to estimate a reference distance, wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from an object;
- a sensor data selecting unit to select sensor data from a sensor area of the sensor panel that changes based on the reference distance;
- a data decoding unit to generate multi-view images of the object using the sensor data, and to extract partial images of the object from the multi-view images;
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- a depth acquiring unit to acquire a depth image of the object using the multi-view images, by combining the partial images from the multi-view images,
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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A display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the display apparatus comprising:
- a data decoding unit to generate multi-view images of the object using sensor data that is selected from a sensor area of the sensor panel that changes based on a reference distance, and to generate a plurality of refocused images using the multi-view images, wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from the object;
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- a depth acquiring unit to acquire a depth image of the object using first depth information associated with points of the generated multi-view images and second depth information associated with edges of the plurality of refocused images,
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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A method of obtaining depth information of an object using a display apparatus comprising a display panel and a sensor panel, the method comprising:
- estimating a reference distance, wherein the reference distance refers to a distance of the display apparatus from the object;
- selecting sensor data from a sensor area of the sensor panel that changes based on the reference distance;
- generating, by way of a processor, a first depth image by combining multi-view images generated using the sensor data;
- generating a second depth image by combining multi-view images acquired by combining refocused images generated using the multi-view images;
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- acquiring a depth image of the object by recombining the first depth image and the second depth image,
- wherein the sensor area comprises a side having a length, and the length of the side of the sensor area is decreased according to an increase in a distance estimated from the object as the reference distance, and
- wherein the reference distance is estimated from among a plurality of candidate distances, wherein each candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances is used to generate a respective candidate image, and
- selecting, as the reference distance, a candidate distance of the plurality of candidate distances used to generate a respective candidate image having a highest degree of definition from among the candidate images respectively generated based on each candidate distance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.