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Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2006
Applicants:

Haohong Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Hsiang-tsun LI, San Diego, CA (US);

Sharath Manjunath, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Haohong Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Hsiang-Tsun Li, San Diego, CA (US);

Sharath Manjunath, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/02 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/0275 (2013.01); H04N 13/0022 (2013.01); H04N 5/2226 (2013.01); H04N 13/0271 (2013.01); G06T 7/0069 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 13/0235 (2013.01); H04N 13/026 (2013.01);
Abstract

A monoscopic low-power mobile device is capable of creating real-time stereo images and videos from a single captured view. The device uses statistics from an autofocusing process to create a block depth map of a single capture view. Artifacts in the block depth map are reduced and an image depth map is created. Stereo three-dimensional (3D) left and right views are created from the image depth map using a Z-buffer based 3D surface recover process and a disparity map which is a function of the geometry of binocular vision.


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