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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 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 5/253 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/367 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for simulating depth of field (DOF) in microscopic imaging, the method comprising computing a blur quantity for each pixel of an all-focus image, performing point spread function operations on one or more regions of the all-focus image, computing intermediate and normalized integral images on the regions and determining an output pixel for the each pixel based on the intermediate and normalized integral images.