ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,516, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for intelligent camera control" was invented by Peter L. Venetianer (McLean, Va.), Randall J. St. Romain II (Clifton, Va.), Miraj Shah (Fairfax, Va.) and Chris Roller (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling camera settings of a camera to improve detection of faces in an uncontrolled environment are described. A first image is received from the camera, where the first image is captured by the camera at a first set of camera settings. A face is detected in the first image. The camera is adjusted to a se...