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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sheng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
David R. Pope, Fremont, CA (US);
D. Amnon Silverstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to image signal processors (ISP) that include one or more auto-focus circuits. Each of the auto-focus circuits may be connected to an image sensor and may be separate from a statistics circuit and other image processing pipelines of the ISP. An image sensor may include one or more focus pixels that are used to generate data for auto-focusing. The auto-focus circuit may extract the focus pixel values and generate a signal to control the lens position of the image sensor. Each image sensor may include a separate auto-focus circuit. When other image processing pipelines of the ISP are processing the image data from one image sensor, the auto-focus circuit for another image sensor may continue to generate focus signals that control the lens position of the other image sensor. The other image sensor may be in standby but may continue to remain in focus.
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