US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 1 for "Auto focus method using image disparity and image capturing device using auto focus method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,866, issued on July 1, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Auto focus method using image disparity and image capturing device using auto focus method" was invented by Chun-Hung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yun Hsuan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto focus method for an image capturing device with a PD image sensor, comprising: (a) receiving pixel values of a sensing image sensed by the PD image sensor; (b) dividing the sensing image into a plurality of image blocks; (c) computing first cost values of each of the image blocks; (d) determining disparities of each of the image blocks according to the fir...