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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
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
A method and apparatus improves an auto focus system by altering, such as by positioning, at least one lens of a digital camera to a plurality of predetermined nonuniform lens positions corresponding to predetermined nonuniform lens position data. The method and apparatus selects a final lens position for the lens based on the predetermined nonuniform lens position data. In one example, a fixed number of predetermined nonuniform lens positions define a set of lens positions used to capture images during an auto focus operation. A final image is captured using a final lens position. The final lens position is determined by comparing focus metric information from each of the frames obtained at the various predetermined nonuniform focus lens positions and selecting the frame with, for example, the best focus metric as the lens position to be used for the final picture or image capture.