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Apparatus and method for generating a fully focused image by using a camera equipped with a multi-color filter aperture

  • US 8,836,765 B2
  • Filed: 11/07/2011
  • Issued: 09/16/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for generating a fully focused image, the apparatus comprising:

  • a depth map generation unit generating a depth map of an input image obtained by a multiple color filter aperture (MCA) camera;

    a channel shifting &

    alignment unit extracting subimages which include objects with same focal distance based on the depth map, and performing color channel alignment and removing out-of-focus blurs for each subimages obtained from the depth map; and

    an image fusing unit fusing the subimages to generate a fully focused image.

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