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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Altek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Wen-Yan Chang, Miaoli County, TW;

Hong-Long Chou, Hsinchu County, TW;

Yi-Hong Tseng, Hsinchu, TW;

Tsan-Wei Wang, Taitung County, TW;

Che-Lun Chuang, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23248 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/2327 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/23267 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses a method of capturing images and an image capturing device using the method. The image capturing device has a first lens module and a second lens module having a view angle which is smaller than that of the first lens module. The method comprises: increasing an exposure time and reducing a light sensitivity value of the first lens module and capturing a first image by using the first lens module; reducing the exposure time and increasing the light sensitivity value of the first lens module and capturing a second image by using the second lens module; extracting a plurality of image features from the first image and the second image respectively and determining a region corresponding to the second image in the first image; and merging the second image into the region in the first image to generate an output image.


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