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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Shashank Shrikant Agashe, Bangalore, IN;
Gaurav Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/52 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6218 (2013.01); G02B 26/0816 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); G06K 2209/19 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present inventive concepts discloses methods, apparatuses, and/or systems for enabling spatially varying auto focusing of one or more objects using an image capturing system. The methods, apparatuses, and/or systems may include focusing objects in a region of interest using lenses, enabling spatially varying auto focusing of objects in the region of interest using a spatial light modulators (SLM), which are out of focus in the region of interest, and capturing the focused and the auto focused objects in the region of interest using a camera sensor.