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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas E. Bishop, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Lindskog, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Claus Molgaard, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Frank Doepke, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/106 (2018.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/106 (2018.05); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01);
Abstract
Generating an image with a selected level of background blur includes capturing, by a first image capture device, a plurality of frames of a scene, wherein each of the plurality of frames has a different focus depth, obtaining a depth map of the scene, determining a target object and a background in the scene based on the depth map, determining a goal blur for the background, and selecting, for each pixel in an output image, a corresponding pixel from the focus stack.