ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FAR-FIELD PERFORMANCE OF CAMERA

    公开(公告)号:US20230386061A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18448575

    申请日:2023-08-11

    CPC classification number: G06T7/586 H04N23/56 G06T5/002

    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an optical output module, an image sensor configured to receive a reflected light that originates from a light output by the optical output module, and to obtain image data, a memory, and a processor operatively coupled to the optical output module, the image sensor, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to control the optical output module to output a spotlight at a first time point, control the optical output module to output a floodlight at a second time point, produce a first depth map based on first image data associated with a first reflected light that originates from the spotlight, produce a second depth map based on second image data associated with a second reflected light that originates from the floodlight, and produce a third depth map based on the first depth map and the second depth map.

    LENS ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230068298A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-02

    申请号:US17852855

    申请日:2022-06-29

    Abstract: According to certain embodiments disclosed herein, a lens assembly and/or an electronic device including the same may include an image sensor, and first to ninth lenses sequentially arranged along an optical axis. The first lens may include a convex object side surface while having positive refractive power, the second lens may include a concave image sensor side surface while having negative refractive power, the third lens may have positive refractive power, and the eighth lens may have has negative refractive power and may include an object side surface and an image sensor side surface, at least one of which is an aspherical surface including at least one inflection point. The lens assembly and/or the electronic device may satisfy Conditional Expression 1: 20≤v3≤40 and Conditional Expression 2: 1.7≤Fno≤2.0. Here, “v3” may be an Abbe number of the third lens, and “Fno” may be an F-number of the lens assembly. Various other embodiments are possible.

    AUTOMATIC FOCUS DETECTION METHOD OF CAMERA AND ELECTRIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230023479A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17957541

    申请日:2022-09-30

    Abstract: An electronic device includes a camera device configured to adjust a focus; a distance extraction device; and a processor configured to: obtain a first image using the camera device; set a first region of interest for focus detection in a portion of the first image; obtain first depth information using the distance extraction device, the first depth information including a depth distance corresponding to at least one pixel included in the first image; set a second region of interest in another portion of the first image based on at least two portions which differ in depth distance being included in the first region of interest based on the first depth information; and capture an image based on a focus determined corresponding to the second region of interest.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220345625A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17861814

    申请日:2022-07-11

    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera module for acquiring image data, a memory for storing a program module for controlling the camera module, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module or the memory, wherein the program module includes an application associated with the camera module, a framework for processing one or more requests received by the application, a hardware interface for interfacing with the camera module, and a solution layer for interlinking the hardware interface and the framework, and performing a post-processing operation of the image data by using at least a part of the camera module.

    CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220272237A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-25

    申请号:US17678941

    申请日:2022-02-23

    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a housing and a camera module, at least part of which is disposed in the housing. The camera module includes a camera housing, a sensor assembly including an image sensor and is fixed to the camera housing, and a lens unit, at least part of which is accommodated in a space formed by the camera housing and the sensor assembly, the lens unit being configured such that all or part of the lens unit moves relative to the camera housing and the sensor assembly. The lens unit includes a lens assembly including a lens, a first carrier to which the lens assembly is coupled, a second carrier in which the first carrier is accommodated to be movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, a stopper coupled to the second carrier to cover at least part of the first carrier, and a first damper, at least part of which is disposed between the stopper and the first carrier.

    METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUDIO DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220159378A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17436237

    申请日:2020-03-03

    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a housing including a first housing and a second housing; a hinge unit rotatably connected to the first housing and the second housing; a display; a first speaker disposed in the first housing; a second speaker disposed in the second housing; at least one sensor; and a memory. The memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: receive an event related to audio data; identify a state of the electronic device on the basis of information obtained through the at least one sensor; determine at least one speaker to output the audio data, among the first speaker and the second speaker, on the basis of the state of the electronic device; and output the audio data through the at least one speaker.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLURALITY OF IMAGE SENSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20210044743A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US16647366

    申请日:2018-07-06

    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments can include: a first image sensor; a second image sensor electrically connected to the first image sensor through a first designated interface; and a processor connected to the first image sensor through a second designated interface and connected to the second image sensor through a third designated interface, wherein the processor can be set to obtain, from the second image sensor, a second image outputted through the third designated interface, and obtain, from the first image sensor, a first image outputted through the second designated interface, in response to a signal provided to the first image sensor through the first designated interface at the starting time of the output of the second image.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20200336653A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16763261

    申请日:2018-11-29

    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a processor and an image sensor module electrically connected to the processor, wherein: the image sensor module comprises an image sensor and a control circuit, which is electrically connected to the image sensor and is connected to the processor by an interface; the control circuit is set so as not to compress at least one image acquired from the image sensor according to a first readout speed, but to transmit the same to the processor, and to compress at least one image acquired from the image sensor according to a second readout speed that is faster than the first readout speed and to transmit the same to the processor; and the processor can be set so as to acquire a first image set by using the image sensor according to a predetermined readout speed, compare at least two images included in the first image set, set, as either the first readout speed or the second readout speed, the readout speed corresponding to the image sensor on the basis of the result of the comparison of the at least two images included in the first image set, and acquire a second image set according to either the set first readout speed or second readout speed, by using the image sensor. Additional various embodiments are possible.

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