ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,518, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Flexible illumination for imaging systems" was invented by Martin Haller (Mountain View, Calif.), Harihar Narasimha-Iyer (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for flexible illumination that improve the performance and robustness of an imaging system are described. Multiple different lighting configurations for the imaging system are pre-generated. Each lighting configuration may specify one or more aspects of lighting. A lookup table may be generated via which each pose is associated with a re...