ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,792, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Lens cover for reducing flare-like artifacts in images" was invented by Chao Wang (Shanghai) and Zhaowei Xin (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure can provide a camera system. The camera system can include a lens system and a rotatable lens cover protecting the lens system from external environment. The rotatable lens cover can be configured to rotate about an optical axis of the lens system while the camera system is capturing images to reduce artifacts on the captured images caused by contaminant...