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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Reza Safaee-rad, Etobicoke, CA;
Milivoje Aleksic, Richmond Hill, CA;
Reza Safaee-Rad, Etobicoke, CA;
Milivoje Aleksic, Richmond Hill, CA;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed wherein a depth map is generated using a single camera (e.g., single lens of a camera) and multiple images are captured by the camera. In some embodiments, a single digital camera is used to capture a set of images corresponding to a set of lens positions based on uniform or nonuniform lens position data. The method and apparatus determines focus metric information for each of a plurality of regions of interest in each image of a set. A determination is made of a best lens position for each of the regions of interest based on the focus metric information from the images in the set and are stored as data in a depth map. Image generation operations are then performed based on the generated depth map.