US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Regions of interest in autofocus processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,213, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Regions of interest in autofocus processing" was invented by Nikolaos Georgis (San Diego), Lan Luo (San Diego) and Lei Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors of a computing device may receive image data obtained via an image sensor of a camera. The one or more processors may apply one or more horizontal filters to the image data to generate horizontally filtered image data and may apply one or more vertical filters to the image data to generate vertically filtered image data. The one or more processors may generate a first accumulation ma...