US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Automatically focusing cameras to compensate for temperature or orientation changes" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,925, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatically focusing cameras to compensate for temperature or orientation changes" was invented by Nithya Arunkumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Abhinav Kashyap (Redmond, Wash.), Shuai Yue (Bellevue, Wash.), Valentina Ferro (Seattle) and Baomin Wang (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system is automatically focused based on pixel disparity values calculated by the camera at various times. A lens of a camera is positioned at an initial distance from an imaging sensor of the camera based on an initial digital-to-analog conversion value. Subsequen...