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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2010
Chia-chang LI, Pingtung, TW;
Duan-li Liao, Taichung, TW;
Wen-hung Ting, Guiren Township, Tainan County, TW;
Po-lung Chen, Taipei, TW;
Chia-Chang Li, Pingtung, TW;
Duan-Li Liao, Taichung, TW;
Wen-Hung Ting, Guiren Township, Tainan County, TW;
Po-Lung Chen, Taipei, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An image depth information refreshing method applied to an image depth information refreshing device is disclosed. The image depth information refreshing device includes a storage unit and an arithmetic logic unit. The storage unit stores a previous depth diagram corresponding to a previous image. The image depth information refreshing method includes the following steps. The arithmetic logic unit divides a current image captured by an image capturing unit into multiple image blocks. The arithmetic logic unit calculates a depth reference value of each image block according to the previous depth diagram, and determines a weight of each image block according to the depth reference values. The arithmetic logic unit determines a refreshing frequency of each image block according to the weights. The arithmetic logic unit respectively refreshes the image block according to the refreshing frequencies of the image blocks, and generates a current depth diagram corresponding to the current image.