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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2012
Applicants:
Ming-chang Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Robertson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ming-Chang Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Robertson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/47 (2006.01); G02B 21/24 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); H04N 19/00 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/244 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01); H04N 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for improving depth for field (DOF) in microscopic imaging, the method comprising combining a sequence of images captured from different focal distances to form an all-focus image, comprising computing a focus measure at every pixel, finding the largest peaks at each position in the focus measure as multiple candidate values and blending the multiple candidates values according to the focus measure to determine the all-focus image.