US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 10 for "Depth map construction by camera phase detection and lens calibration" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,585, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Depth map construction by camera phase detection and lens calibration" was invented by Wei-Chih Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Min Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Huai Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a depth map are described. The techniques include obtaining a set of phase difference measurements with a phase detect sensor, and generating a depth map based on the set of phase difference measurements, utilizing a first set of calibration data correlating phase difference measurements with lens defocus d...