US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Asymmetric camera sensor positioning for enhanced package detection" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,988, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Asymmetric camera sensor positioning for enhanced package detection" was invented by Jacobi Colton Grillo (San Jose, Calif.), Adrian Mircea Proca (Santa Cruz, Calif.), William Vincent Duran (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and ChihHao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes asymmetric camera sensor positioning for enhanced package detection. In aspects, an electronic doorbell has an image sensor that is rotated to a portrait orientation and vertically shifted relative to a lens of a camera, resulting in asymmetric positioning of the ima...