ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,251, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Auto-exposure management of multi-component images" was invented by Zhen He (Cupertino, Calif.), Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas) and Max J. Trejo (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative apparatus may obtain an image frame captured by an image capture system in accordance with an auto-exposure parameter set to a first setting. The image frame may include a first image component associated with visible light and a second image component associated with non-visible light. The apparatus may determine a first auto-exp...