Patent Document ID: 20130188019
Application ID: 13559287
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying depth information in a frame of a video comprising: focusing a microfluidic lens in a camera on an object in a field of view of the camera; generating first image data of the field of view that includes a first plurality of pixels corresponding to the object on which the microfluidic lens was focused; defocusing the microfluidic lens in the camera from the object; generating second image data that includes a second plurality of pixels corresponding to the object on which the microfluidic lens was defocused; generating a plurality of blurred images from the first image data with an image data processor, each blurred image in the plurality of blurred images being generated with one blur parameter value in a predetermined plurality of blur parameter values; generating, with the image data processor, a plurality of blur parameters with reference to the second plurality of pixels and the plurality of blurred images, each blur parameter in the plurality of blur parameters corresponding to one pixel in the first plurality of pixels; identifying, with the image data processor, a depth of the object from the camera in the first image data with reference the plurality of blur parameters; and generating a video frame including the first image data and a depth map corresponding to a portion of the first image data and the identified depth of the object from the camera prior to generation of a subsequent video frame.