ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,245, issued on July 14, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Exposure time control for imaging device" was invented by Ali Saheli (Wuppertal, Germany) and Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling the exposure time of an imaging device includes obtaining imaging data from the imaging device. The imaging data is grouped in one or more regions. Each region is associated with a weighting coefficient. The method includes modifying one or more of the weighting coefficients based on light intensity values obtained from the imaging dat...