ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,021, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"High speed autofocus for images" was invented by Abhijeet Dey (Bengaluru, India), Varun Bansal (New Delhi), Shridhar Prakash Patil (Chikkodi, India) and Joby Abraham (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for image processing. For example, a computing device can obtain, from an image sensor, a primary image frame of a scene. The computing device can obtain, from the image sensor during an idle time (e.g., a vertical blanking interval (VBI)) of the image sensor, auxiliary image frames of the scene. Each of the auxiliary i...