For the folks that love reading/translating patents, here are three new ones uncovered by Northlight that are related to autofocus technologies.

Summarized by Northlight:

  • [USPTO] Refining AF to correct for lens chromatic aberration.
  • [USPTO] Using AF to refine and maintain manual focus setting
  • [USPTO] Improving focus accuracy and automating focus adjustment over the range of lens settings

Additionally, here are some patent applications related to image files

  • [USPTO] looks at ways of reducing moire in images by detecting it for correction in processing.
  • [USPTO] looks at lossy RAW encoding for faster burst mode shooting
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