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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Lindskog, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael W. Tao, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark N. Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/271 (2018.01); G06T 7/571 (2017.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/571 (2017.01); H04N 5/36961 (2018.08); H04N 13/271 (2018.05); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure pertains to techniques for image processing. One such technique comprises a method for image processing comprising obtaining first light information from a set of light-sensitive pixels for a scene, the pixels including phase detection (PD) pixels and non-PD pixels, generating a first PD pixel image from the first light information, the first PD pixel image having a first resolution, generating a higher resolution image from the plurality of non-PD pixels, wherein the higher resolution image has a resolution greater than the resolution of the first PD pixel image, matching a first pixel of the first PD pixel image to the higher resolution image, wherein the matching is based on a set of correlations between the first pixel and non-PD pixel within a predetermined distance of the first pixel, and determining a disparity map for an image associated with the first light information, based on the match.


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