MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517042736 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on May 2, for 'methods for determining regions of interest for camera auto-focus.'
Inventor(s) include Molina Vela, Francisco, Javier; Reardon, Andrew, Patrick; Chan, Leung, Chun; 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: "A method includes receiving an image frame captured by an image capturing device. The method also includes determining a saliency heatmap representing saliency of pixels in the image frame. The method further includes determining, based on the saliency heatmap, a primary region of interest (ROI) and a secondary ROI for the image frame. The method additionally includes determining a filtered ROI for the image frame, where the filtered ROI updates from a previous filtered ROI to the primary ROI or the secondary ROI based on a saliency difference between the previous filtered ROI and the primary ROI or the secondary ROI exceeding a first threshold. The method also includes applying one or more auto-focus processes based on the filtered ROI, the primary ROI, or the secondary ROI."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 04, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/034441.
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