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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Indranil Sinharoy, Dallas, TX (US);
Marc P. Christensen, McKinney, TX (US);
Prasanna Rangarajan, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); G02B 7/04 (2006.01); H04N 13/207 (2018.01); H04N 13/271 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G02B 7/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/44504 (2013.01); H04N 13/207 (2018.05); H04N 13/271 (2018.05);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes a method for operating a camera. A lens or a sensor of the camera is rotated about an axis to a plurality of positions, and the rotation generates a rotation of a plane of sharp focus of the camera. At each of the plurality of positions, an image is captured. For each image, a substantially in-focus region is determined. The substantially in-focus regions are combined to generate a composite image.