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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Pingshan Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06K 9/4671 (2013.01); G06K 9/627 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01);
Abstract
Various aspects of a device and method for detection of regions based on sensor data for autofocus are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes receipt of a depth of filed (DOF) information of a scene viewed using an image-capturing device of the electronic device. The one or more images of the scene are segmented into a plurality of candidate segmented regions based on the received DOF information. One of the plurality of candidate segmented regions is determined as a region-of-interest to autofocus on the determined candidate segmented region.