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Granted Patent B2
US 10,223,838 · App. 15/438,891 · Granted Mar 5, 2019

Method and system of mobile-device control with a plurality of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras

Inventor: Derek A. Devries (San Francisco, CA)
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Patent No.
US 10,223,838
App. No.
15/438,891
Granted
Mar 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one aspect, a method of a mobile-device control with a plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors including the step of providing a mobile device. The mobile device comprises an array comprising a plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors. Each fixed-focus image sensors comprises a different focus range value. The method includes the step of associating each rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors with a command input of the mobile device. The method includes the step of detecting a specified object in a depth of field of a specified rear-facing fixed-focus image sensor of the rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors. The method includes the step of implementing the command input of the mobile device associated with the specified rear-facing fixed-focus image sensor.

Claims (36)

1. A method of, a mobile-device control with a plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors comprising:

providing a mobile device, wherein the mobile device comprises an array comprising a plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors, and wherein each fixed focus image sensors comprises a different focus range value;

associating each rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors with a command input of the mobile device;

detecting a specified object in a depth of field of a specified rear-facing fixed-focus image sensor of the rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors; and

implementing the command input of the mobile device associated with the specified rear-facing fixed-focus image sensor, and

wherein each fixed-focus image sensors comprises a different focus range value with the depth of field that comprises one or more three-dimensional geometric patterns in a physical space in the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors, and

wherein the one or more three-dimensional geometric patterns in the physical space in the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors comprises two or more intersecting or interwoven three-dimensional spiral patterns.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each fixed-focus image sensor comprises a CCD-based image sensor.

3. A method of a mobile-device control with an, array of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras comprising:

providing a mobile device, wherein the mobile device comprises an array of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras, and wherein each fixed-gradient focused digital camera comprises a fixed-focus image sensor, and wherein each fixed-focus image sensor comprises a different focus range value with a different range of focus, and wherein each fixed-focus image sensor comprises a charge-coupled device (CCD)-based image sensor;

obtaining a digital image of an object with a specified rear-facing fixed-focus image sensor of the array of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors;

identifying the object; and

obtaining a digital image of a user gesture with respect to the object.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

identify a region of the object that is manipulated by a user gesture; and

receive one or more user manipulations from one or more users with respect to the object.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

determining an effect of one or more user manipulations with respect to the object; and

generating a augmented reality image of the effect of one or more user manipulations with respect to the object.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

displaying the augmented reality image and an image of the object with a computing device.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein each fixed-focus image sensors comprises a different focus range value with the depth of field that comprises a non-overlapping three-dimensional geometric pattern in a physical space in the field of view of the array of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the non-overlapping three-dimensional geometric pattern in a physical space in the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors comprises a three-dimensional spiral pattern.

9. A method of, a mobile-device control with an array of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras comprising:

providing a mobile device, wherein the mobile device comprises an array of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras, and wherein each fixed-gradient focused, digital camera comprises a fixed-focus image sensor, and wherein each fixed-focus image ,sensor comprises a different focus range value with a different range of focus;

obtaining a digital image of an object in the interior of an entity;

performing an image recognition algorithm on object the digital image;

associating the object with a virtual exterior view of the entity;

determining a manipulable portion of a specified portion of the entity;

obtaining another user view of the manipulable portion of the specified portion of the virtual exterior view of the entity; and

receiving a user input to the manipulable portion with the array of fixed-gradient focused digital cameras, and

wherein the non-overlapping three-dimensional geometric pattern in a physical space in the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors comprises a three-dimensional spiral pattern.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein each fixed-focus image sensors comprises different focus range value with the depth of field that comprises a non-overlapping three-dimensional geometric pattern in a physical space the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus image sensors.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein each fixed-focus Image sensor comprises a CCD-based image sensor.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the user input to the manipulabe portion is received via a pre-specified zone of the non-overlapping three-dimensional geometric pattern.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the entity is located in the physical pace in the field of view of the plurality of rear-facing fixed-focus mage sensors.

Continuity (3)
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