US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on March 4 for "High-speed autofocus control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,169, issued on March 4, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston).

"High-speed autofocus control" was invented by Peter DiMeo (Boston), Jingyang Yan (Boston) and Xian Du (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to high-speed autofocus control. In one example, a method includes obtaining a first image of a target with a camera; adjusting focus of the camera by a specified AF bin step size; obtaining a second image of the target; adjusting focus of the camera by the specified AF bin step size; obtaining a third image of the target; determining an optimal focus using data of the second and ...