ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,836, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Image capture mode adaptation" was invented by Shizhong Liu (San Diego), Hailong Wang (San Diego) and Wan Shun Vincent Ma (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described regarding adaptation of image capture modes to provide refined image capture capabilities. Cameras comprising image sensors configured to perform the techniques are also disclosed. An image sensor may use different image capture modes to capture frames of image data based at least in part on various operating conditions. For example, the processor can cause an image sen...