The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Haohong Wang, San Diego, 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 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/026 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 13/0022 (2013.01); H04N 13/0048 (2013.01); H04N 13/0207 (2013.01); H04N 13/0275 (2013.01);
Abstract
A monoscopic low-power mobile device is capable of creating real-time images and videos for multiple viewpoints 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. Alternate views are created from the image depth map using a Z-buffer based surface recover process and a disparity map which is a function of a geometric vision model.