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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:
Jan. 17, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2022
Applicant:

Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bo Mu, San Jose, CA (US);

Rui Jiang, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:

OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232127 (2018.08); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/803 (2022.01); G06V 20/35 (2022.01); H04N 5/23218 (2018.08);
Abstract

A focus method and an image sensing apparatus are disclosed. The method includes capturing, by a plurality of event sensing pixels, event data of a targeted scene, wherein the event data indicates which pixels of the event sensing pixels have changes in light intensity, accumulating the event data for a predetermined time interval to obtain accumulated event data, determining whether a scene change occurs in the targeted scene according to the accumulated event data, obtaining one or more interest regions in the targeted scene according to the accumulated event data in response to the scene change, and providing at least one of the one or more interest regions for a focus operation. The image sensing apparatus comprises a plurality of image sensing pixels, a plurality of event sensing pixels, and a controller configured to perform said method.


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