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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Pingshan Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00369 (2013.01); G06K 9/3241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a device, such as an imaging device, for image processing for automatic detection of focus area are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the device for image processing is the imaging device that is configured to extract a plurality of object features of a plurality of objects in a field-of-view (FOV) of the imaging device. A plurality of confidence maps are generated based on the extracted plurality of object features. The imaging device is further configured to determine a focus area corresponding to the FOV, based on the generated plurality of confidence maps by use of a pre-determined rule.