ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,829, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Techniques to automatically focus a digital camera" was invented by Matthew Crowley (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeff Finkelstein (San Francisco) and Richard Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to techniques to automatically focus a digital camera. In one or more embodiments, a mobile electronics device may comprise a digital camera having a lens component and lens position component. A display may be coupled to the digital camera to reproduce an image with a first focal point. The digital camera may also include a foca...