ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,743, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Foveated images with adaptive exposure" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco) and Alex Olwal (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that address the need for adaptive exposure within high dynamic range (HDR) images. Solutions can leverage recent advances in the use of virtual reality (VR) headsets and Augmented Reality (AR) displays equipped with infrared (IR) eye tracking devices. A gaze vector determined by the eye tracking device identifies one or more fixation points on the image that corresponds to an ...