ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,320, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Reducing auto-exposure latency" was invented by Erik Daniel Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nirav Shailesh kumar Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to reducing auto-exposure latency. An example embodiment includes a method of reducing auto-exposure latency. The method includes determining, by a processor, a first setting of an exposure parameter for a first frame to be captured by an image sensor. The first setting of the exposure parameter is determined based at least in part on characteristics of a previous frame ...