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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Chia-ho Lin, Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Chia-Ho Lin, Hsinchu County, TW;
Assignee:
NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of simulating short depth of field for a digital camera is disclosed. The method includes steps of detecting an object distance corresponding to a focus pixel, generating an original image according to the focus distance, and blurring a plurality of pixels of the original image to different extents according to a plurality of contrast values of the plurality of pixels, to generate an image with short depth of field.