US Patent Issued to GoPro on June 23 for "Entropy maximization based auto-exposure" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,148, issued on June 23, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Entropy maximization based auto-exposure" was invented by Bruno Cesar Douady-Pleven (Orsay, France), Thomas Nicolas Emmanuel Veit (Meudon, France) and Guillaume Matthieu Guerin (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus may include an image sensor, a motion sensor, and an auto-exposure unit. The auto-exposure unit may obtain an input image captured during an exposure interval and corresponding motion data indicating motion of the image capture apparatus during the exposure interval. The auto-exposure unit may obtain image inform...