ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,080, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Exposure control using liquid crystal device" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an imaging system including an image sensor with a plurality of photo-sensitive cells arranged on a photo-sensitive surface of the image sensor; a light valve device with an array of light valves, wherein the array of light valves is arranged on an optical path of the photo-sensitive surface of the image sensor; and at least one processor configured to: control an exposure of photo-s...