Methods and devices for adjusting lens position

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11061202-B2
Application number	US-201916416945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2019
Priority date	May 30, 2018
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

A method for adjusting lens position, includes: controlling a lens in a photographing component to be sequentially located at m first lens positions during a focusing process, and acquiring a first definition of an image captured by the photographing component at each of the first lens positions, where m≥3; selecting a first relationship curve in a focusing curve library according to a matching condition, the focusing curve library including at least two relationship curves between definitions and lens positions captured at different focusing distances, and the matching condition being used to indicate a degree of similarity between the m first lens positions as well as the first definitions and the relationship curves; and controlling the lens to be located at a target lens position corresponding to a maximum definition indicated by the first relationship curve.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting lens position, including:
controlling a lens in a photographing component to be sequentially located at m first lens positions during a focusing process, and acquiring a first definition of an image captured by the photographing component at each of the first lens positions, where m is an integer no less than 3;
selecting a first relationship curve in a focusing curve library according to a matching condition, the focusing curve library including at least two relationship curves between definitions and lens positions captured at different focusing distances, and the matching condition indicating a degree of similarity between a first definition curve and the relationship curves, wherein the first definition curve is defined by the m first lens positions and the first definitions; and
controlling the lens to move to a target lens position corresponding to a maximum definition indicated by the first relationship curve.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein selecting the first relationship curve in the focusing curve library according to the matching condition comprises:
identifying m second definitions corresponding to the m first lens positions in each relationship curve in the focusing curve library;
for each of the m first lens positions, obtaining a difference between each first definition and each second definition; and
selecting the first relationship curve where the difference between each first definition and each second definition is less than a definition threshold.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
acquiring reference definitions of images captured by the photographing component at multiple reference lens positions, the multiple reference lens positions being multiple lens positions under the same focusing distance;
performing curve fitting according to the multiple reference lens positions and the acquired reference definitions to obtain a second relationship curve; and
storing the second relationship curve in the focusing curve library.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the m first lens positions are all located on an optical axis of the lens, and the method further comprises:
determining whether a predetermined condition is established when the first relationship curve cannot be found in the focusing curve library, the predetermined condition includes: the first definition of the image captured by the photographing component at the second lens position being the highest for three consecutive lens positions among the m first lens positions;
when the predetermined condition is established, controlling the lens to be sequentially located at n second lens positions, and acquiring a third definition of an image captured by the photographing component at each of the second lens positions, where n≥1, the second lens position being located between the first lens position and a third lens position which are on the optical axis of the lens; and
controlling the lens to move to the second lens position where a maximum third definition can be acquired.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
performing curve fitting according to the m first lens positions, the m first definitions of the images acquired at the m first lens positions, the n second lens positions and the n third definitions of the images captured at the n second lens positions to obtain a third relationship curve; and
adding the third relationship curve into the focusing curve library.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of relationship curves in the focusing curve library is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold of number.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of controlling the lens in the photographing component to be sequentially located at the m first lens positions includes:
controlling the lens to move m−1 steps from current position in a fixed step size to enable the lens to be sequentially moved to m−1 positions, wherein
the m first lens positions include the current position and the m−1 positions.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein m is less than 5.

9. A device for adjusting lens position, comprising:
a first controller configured to control a lens in a photographing component to be sequentially located at m first lens positions, during a focusing process, and acquire a first definition of an image captured by the photographing component at each of the first lens positions, where m is an integer no less than 3;
a look-up circuitry configured to look up a first relationship curve in a focusing curve library according to a matching condition, the focusing curve library including at least two relationship curves between definitions and lens positions captured at different focusing distances, and the matching condition indicating a degree of similarity between a first definition curve and the relationship curves, wherein the first definition curve is defined by the m first lens positions and the first definitions; and
a second controller configured to control the lens to move to a target lens position corresponding to the maximum definition indicated by the first relationship curve.

10. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the matching condition includes:
a difference between the first definition corresponding to the first lens position and a second definition being less than a definition threshold for each of the m first lens positions, and the second definition being a definition, which corresponds to the first lens position, in the first relationship curve.

11. The device according to claim 10 , further comprising:
an acquisition circuitry configured to acquire reference definitions of images captured by the photographing component at multiple reference lens positions, the multiple reference lens positions being multiple lens positions under the same focusing distance;
a first curve fitting circuitry configured to perform curve fitting according to the multiple reference lens positions and the acquired reference definitions to obtain a second relationship curve; and
a storage configured to store the second relationship curve in the focusing curve library.

12. The device according to claim 10 , further comprising:
a determiner configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is established when the first relationship curve cannot be found in the focusing curve library, the predetermined condition includes: the first definition of the image captured by the photographing component at the second lens position being the highest for three consecutive lens positions among the m first lens positions;
a third controller configured to, when the predetermined condition is established, control the lens to be sequentially located at n second lens positions, and acquire a third definition of an image captured by the photographing component at each of the second lens positions, where n≥1, the second lens position being located between the first lens position and a third lens position which are on the optical axis of the lens; and
a fourth controller configured to control the lens to move to the second lens position where a maximum third definition can be acquired.

13. The device according to claim 12 , further comprising:
a second curve fitting circuitry configured to perform curve fitting according to the m first lens positions, the m first definitions of the images acquired at the m first lens positions, the n second lens positions and the n third definitions of the images captured at the n second lens positions to obtain a third relationship curve; and
an adder configured to add the third re

Assignees

• Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd

Inventors

• Qiao Zhang
• Chen Xiaolong
• Wang Kunpeng

Classifications

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