ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,635, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Hybrid omnidirectional camera systems" was invented by Jeffrey David Barr (Seattle), Jean Laurent Guigues (Seattle), Abhinav Kashyap (Redmond, Wash.), Sarah M. Langehennig (Seattle), Michael Lim (Kirkland, Wash.) and Shuai Yue (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system includes a housing and camera modules (e.g., digital cameras) that are aligned with fields of view that extend below the housing. The camera modules are provided about a perimeter of the housing and mounted to a bench within the housing. Two camera modules have axes of ori...