US 11,729,507 B2
Progressive morphological lens parameter encoding
Tobias Anderberg, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/399,846.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/148,753, filed on Feb. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264016 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/69 (2023.01) [H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of automatically shifting between virtual lens parameters and optical lens parameters for an optical camera positioned within a physical scene, the method comprising:
providing a spatial awareness of the physical scene including position and orientation of a display screen to the optical camera;
creating a feedback loop between the optical camera and lens to enable the lens to communicate lens settings to a scene registration;
determining when focus of the lens is beyond an optical focal limit from the lens settings; and
enabling the lens, by the scene registration, to automatically shift from using the optical lens parameters to using the virtual lens parameters when the focus of the lens moves beyond the optical focal limit.