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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2012
Applicant:
David Stoker, Burlingame, CA (US);
Inventor:
David Stoker, Burlingame, CA (US);
Assignee:
SRI INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00255 (2013.01); H04N 13/0239 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for standoff facial and ocular acquisition. Embodiments of the invention address the problems of atmospheric turbulence, defocus, and field of view in a way that minimizes the need for additional hardware. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a facial feature of a subject includes a single wide field of view sensor configured to acquire a plurality of images over a large depth of field containing the subject and a post processor coupled to the single sensor and configured to synthesize the image of the facial feature from the plurality of images.