US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 17 for "Control window camera direction to avoid saturation from strong background light and actively adjust the frame time on the spinning camera to achieve directional control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,200, issued on March 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Control window camera direction to avoid saturation from strong background light and actively adjust the frame time on the spinning camera to achieve directional control" was invented by Colin Braley (Mountain View, Calif.), Chase Salsbury (San Mateo, Calif.) and Po-Chao Huang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to taking images at certain predetermined angles in order to have consistent exposure throughout the images. An example embodiment includes a method. The method includes determining, using a lidar device,...