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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2013
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Hui Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Timo Ahonen, San Carlos, CA (US);
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method including automatically segmenting regions of images of a focal stack into segment regions; and based, at least partially, upon selection of one or more of the segment regions, generating a refocused image which induces different ones of the segment regions from at least two of the images of the focal stack. An apparatus including an image segmentator for a focal stack of images, where the image segmentator is configured to automatically form segment regions for each of the images; and a focal stack fuser configured to fuse the focal stack of images into a refocused image, where the refocused image comprises different ones of the segment regions from at least two of the images of the focal stack.