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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
May. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Gainesville, FL (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling image focus in a digital imaging system is provided that includes receiving a depth-scene image pair generated by a depth-scene image sensor pair comprised in the digital imaging system, aligning the depth image with the scene image wherein each pixel in the scene image has a corresponding depth in the aligned depth image, detecting a user gesture associated with a focus effect, and blurring, responsive to the user gesture, at least a portion of the scene image according to the focus effect, wherein the blurring is based on depths in the depth image.