Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Photocell controls its own optical systems
Patent
1988-11-28
1990-02-27
Nelms, David C.
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Photocell controls its own optical systems
250204, G01J 120
Patent
active
049048554
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for finding an exact focus of a taking lens of a single lens camera or the like. The method detects the relative position between two images on the basis of light intensity distribution of the images from a pair of light sensor arrays that receive the images through light paths separated from each other in space. The relative position depends on whether a taking lens of a camera is in front-focus condition or in back-focus condition. Partial image data consisting of n data respectively are sampled from the two image data as verification data. A number of combinations of the data are used to calculate evaluation values indicative of the level of correlation between the respective verification data. Correct focus exhibits the highest correlation. The method overcomes the problem that the combination having the highest correlation may not be correctly determined due to abnormal shape or envelope of the plotted distribution of the evaluation value.
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patent: 4358675 (1982-11-01), Frazier et al.
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Nishibe Takashi
Yokoyama Shotaro
Beck George
Fuji Electric & Co., Ltd.
Nelms David C.
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