ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,783, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Assistive depth of field analysis" was invented by I-Chen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Chun Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Fang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a controller of an electronic device, cause the controller to perform an assistive depth of field analysis. Performing the assistive depth analysis causes the controller to receive images from an image sensor, determine, via artificial intelligen...