ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,489, issued on May 20, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Camera selection based on light blockage" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Bharat Desai (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides techniques for selecting a camera based on light blockage of the camera lens. The method includes monitoring, by at least one processor of an electronic device an amount of light impinging on each of a first lens of a first image capturing device and a second lens of a second image capturing device. The method includes, in response to detecting the blockage of light entering...