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US 2015/0085179 A1Published application
Systems, Devices, and Methods for Managing Camera Focus
Assigneee-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
InventorAnthony Van Heugten
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Abstract
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, via a device comprising an electro-active lens, automatically acquiring at least two images of a scene.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- via a photographic device comprising an electro-active lens and an image sensor that is optically aligned with the electro-active lens and a scene, upon receiving an acquisition initiation command, automatically acquiring at least two images of the scene without substantially changing a field of view, orientation, or location of the electro-active lens or the image sensor, each of the at least two images having a different focal depth;
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- automatically rendering a selected image from the at least two images, the selected image having a best focus, with respect to any other of the at least two images, for a predetermined region of the at least two images.
A device comprising:
- an electro-active lens;
- and
- an image sensor that is optically aligned with the electro-active lens and a scene, the image sensor adapted to:
- upon receiving an acquisition initiation command, automatically acquire at least two images of the scene without substantially changing a field of view, orientation, or location of the electro-active lens or the image sensor, each of the at least two images having a different focal depth;
- and
- automatically render a selected image from the at least two images, the selected image having a best focus, with respect to any other of the at least two images, for a predetermined region of the at least two images.
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A machine-readable medium storing machine-implementable instructions for activities comprising:
- via a photographic device comprising an electro-active lens and an image sensor that is optically aligned with the electro-active lens and a scene:
- upon receiving an acquisition initiation command, automatically acquiring at least two images of the scene without substantially changing a field of view, orientation, or location of the electro-active lens or the image sensor, each of the at least two images having a different focal depth;
- and
- automatically rendering a selected image from the at least two images, the selected image having a best focus, with respect to any other of the at least two images, for a predetermined region of the at least two images.
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A circuit comprising:
- operative in a photographic device comprising an electro-active lens and an image sensor that is optically aligned with the electro-active lens and a scene:
- a first sub-circuit adapted to, upon receiving an acquisition initiation command, automatically acquire at least two images of the scene without substantially changing a field of view, orientation, or location of the electro-active lens or the image sensor, each of the at least two images having a different focal depth;
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- a second sub-circuit adapted to automatically render a selected image from the at least two images, the selected image having a best focus, with respect to any other of the at least two images, for a predetermined region of the at least two images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.