US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 4 for "Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,267, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters" was invented by Bosheng Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Angelo M Alaimo (San Jose, Calif.) and Bryan Dang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional projecting lens. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting different ones of the illumination elements to control a light field emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments,...