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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2012
Yi-ren NG, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eric Cheng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chia-kai Liang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kayvon Fatahalian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David John Evans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kira Wampler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kristen Berman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt Barton Akeley, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yi-Ren Ng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eric Cheng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chia-Kai Liang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kayvon Fatahalian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David John Evans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kira Wampler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kristen Berman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt Barton Akeley, Saratoga, CA (US);
Lytro, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
According to various embodiments of the invention, a system and method are provided for enabling interaction with, manipulation of, and control of depth-assigned content in depth-enhanced pictures. Depth-assigned content can be assigned to a specified depth value. When a depth-enhanced picture is refocused at a focus depth substantially different from the specified assigned depth value, the depth-assigned content may be omitted, grayed out, blurred, or otherwise visually distinguished. In this manner, content associated with an in-focus image element can be visually distinguished from content associated with an out-of-focus image element. For example, in at least one embodiment, depth-assigned content is visible only when an image element associated with the content is in focus (or nearly in focus). According to various embodiments of the invention, many different types of interactions are facilitated among depth-assigned content, depth-enhanced pictures, and other content.