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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Junji Shimada, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/2257 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for improving camera depth estimations for a moving subject in the camera field of view. The camera utilizes a generative adversarial network (GAN) to predict future frames from a current frame(s). These predicted future frames are then utilized as a target for determining a depth map from which lens focusing direction and distance are determined for moving the camera into proper focus and thus reducing focusing errors on captured frames as target and/or camera motion progresses.