US Patent Issued to Jabil Optics Germany on Nov. 3 for "Surround-view imaging system" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,520, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Jabil Optics Germany GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Surround-view imaging system" was invented by Ian Blasch (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surround-view imaging system for three dimensional imaging of a surrounding of the system includes integrated planar and radial illumination sources for an enhanced field of view (FOV). The system includes an imager and illuminator. The illuminator illuminates in a FOV of the illuminator the surrounding of the system such that illumination light reflected by the surrounding can be imaged by the imager in a FOV of the imager as imaging light. The illum...