US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 21 for "Sensor read out mode for high resolution and low light imaging in-sync with Lidar timing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,765, issued on April 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor read out mode for high resolution and low light imaging in-sync with Lidar timing" was invented by Nirav Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.), Xiaoying He (Mountain View, Calif.) and Benjamin Frevert (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods that relate to obtaining image frames with variable resolutions in synchronization with a clock source. An example device may include an image sensor, a clock input, and a controller. The controller includes at least one processor and a memory. The at least...