US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 21 for "System and method to enhance optical bokeh effect of computing device cameras" (Taiwanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,699, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to enhance optical bokeh effect of computing device cameras" was invented by Chih-Hao Kao (Taiwan, Taiwan), Choon Keat Chew (Singapore) and Yi-Hsien Lin (Taiwan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described methods and systems for achieving an optical bokeh effect by a camera supporting a computing device, such as a laptop computer. A measurement is performed as to focus spot position of a subject. The depth of field (DOF) of camera lens is determined. An offset as to the focus spot position is calculated such the background of the sub...