ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,142, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Video monitoring using a hierarchical combination of camera sensors" was invented by Paolo Di Febbo (Redwood City, Calif.), Chaminda N. Vidanagamachchi (San Jose, Calif.), Yohan Rajan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Anselm Grundhoefer (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a primary camera sensor configured to capture images having a first resolution, a primary processing circuit configured to process images captured by the primary camera sensor, a secondary camera sensor configured to capture images having a second resolution, and a seco...