Patent ID: 11910104
Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, A BODY CORPORATE
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for all-in-focus imaging of an object, comprising:
for each of a plurality of surface-regions of the object, determining a corresponding image-sensor pixel group of a camera illuminated by light propagating from the surface-region of the object via a lens of the camera;
after the step of determining and for each surface-region:
changing a distance between the object and the lens such that the surface region intersects an in-focus object-plane of the camera and the lens forms an in-focus surface-region image on the corresponding image-sensor pixel group,
capturing, with the corresponding image-sensor pixel group, the in-focus surface-region image of the surface-region; and

combining a plurality of in-focus surface-region images, obtained by performing said capturing for each of the plurality of surface-regions, to yield an all-in-focus image of the object.