US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Automatic generation of all-in-focus images with a mobile camera" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,685, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic generation of all-in-focus images with a mobile camera" was invented by Szepo Robert Hung (Austin, Texas) and Ying Chen Lou (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and techniques directed to producing an all-in-focus image with a camera of a mobile device, in particular, cameras with shallow depth-of-field. User equipment includes a sensor for determining distance to an object in a camera's field-of-view. Based on a depth map of the field-of-view, a plurality of segments is inferred, each segment...