ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,381, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"System for imaging a scene" was invented by Tobias Moll (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for imaging a scene includes a capturing unit to capture two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional information of the scene, the information including light waves from the scene; a first diffractive optical element to receive the light waves from the capturing unit; a waveguide to forward the light waves received by the first diffractive optical element, the first diffractive optical element additionally to couple the light waves into the optical wave...