US Patent Issued to Ambarella International on Oct. 7 for "IR illumination control for cameras with multi-region array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,167, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ambarella International LP (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IR illumination control for cameras with multi-region array" was invented by Ruian Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Peichun Peng (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising an infrared (IR) illuminator, an interface and a processor. The IR illuminator may comprise an array of emitters divided into a plurality of segments each configured to generate an amount of an IR light. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data comprising the IR light. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as v...