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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2009
Applicant:
Iraj Sodagar, La Jolla, CA (US);
Inventor:
Iraj Sodagar, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The dominant gradient method for finding focused objects determines focused objects within an image or video frame using a dominant gradient method. The method also uses a segmentation map of the image to determine parameters which are used in ranking the objects based on their focus. The ranking of the objects is able to be used to assist in enhancing the image, encoding the image and adjusting the lens while capturing the image.