ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,312, issued on March 3, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Mitigating rolling shutter effect using an adjustable transparency layer" was invented by Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Toshiro Ozawa (Irvine, Calif.) and Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for correcting rolling shutter effect for images captured by a camera. In some embodiments, an adjustable transparency layer is placed between an image sensor and a camera lens, where the adjustable transparency layer is controlled to become transparent and then opaque in order to produce a single concu...