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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 28, 2015
Fotonation Limited, Galway, IE;
Kartik Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Gallagher, San Jose, CA (US);
Ankit K. Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Semyon Nisenzon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dan Lelescu, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Florian Ciurea, San Jose, CA (US);
Gabriel Molina, Grass Valley, CA (US);
FotoNation Limited, , IE;
Abstract
Systems with an array camera augmented with a conventional camera in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In some embodiments, the array camera is used to capture a first set of image data of a scene and a conventional camera is used to capture a second set of image data for the scene. An object of interest is identified in the first set of image data. A first depth measurement for the object of interest is determined and compared to a predetermined threshold. If the first depth measurement is above the threshold, a second set of image data captured using the conventional camera is obtained. The object of interest is identified in the second set of image data and a second depth measurement for the object of interest is determined using at least a portion of the first set of image data and at least a portion of the second set of image data.