US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on Oct. 7 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for focus selection using image disparity" (North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,154, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for focus selection using image disparity" was invented by Paul Poloniewicz (Charlotte, N.C.), Tao Xian (Mount Laurel, N.J.) and Chen Feng (Mount Laurel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to automatic focus selection in a multi-imager environment. Embodiments include methods, systems, and apparatuses configured for capturing by a first image sensor, a first image of a visual object with a background associated with a subject. A characteristic difference between the visual...