MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517043574 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on May 5, for 'hybrid auto-focus system with robust macro object priority focusing.'
Inventor(s) include Gamadia, Mark; Wang, Minchieh; Kim, Jae, Soo; Yang, Yang; and Lou, Ying, Chen.
The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An example method includes displaying a zoomed preview of a scene captured by a camera system. The method includes determining a phase-detect autofocus (PDAF) depth estimate and a time-of-flight (ToF) depth estimate for the scene. The method includes, based on a comparison of the PDAF and ToF depth estimates, determining whether a foreground object in the zoomed preview is in-focus for a ToF based AF mode. The method includes, based on a determination that the foreground object in the zoomed preview is in-focus for the ToF based AF mode, bypassing a PDAF mode and activating the ToF based AF mode to focus on the foreground object. The method includes displaying, based on the ToF based AF mode, the focused foreground object as part of the zoomed preview of the scene."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 02, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/034281.
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