ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,584, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with autofocus" was invented by Myungsub Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hana Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyong Euk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes: generating first input data comprising phase information of an input image; generating second input data in which lens position information is encoded; and determining position information of a lens corresponding to autofocus by inputting the first input data and the second input data to a neural network mo...