US Patent Issued to Contrast on Feb. 17 for "Real-time HDR video for vehicle control" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,827, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Contrast Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Real-time HDR video for vehicle control" was invented by Willie C. Kiser (Albuquerque, N.M.), Nora Tocci (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Michael D. Tocci (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an autonomous vehicle with a video camera that merges images taken a different light levels by replacing saturated parts of an image with corresponding parts of a lower-light image to stream a video with a dynamic range that extends to include very low-light and very intensely lit parts of a scene. The high dynamic range (HDR) camera streams th...