ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,785, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEARMAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD. (Barangaroo, Australia).
"Hyper camera with shared mirror" was invented by James Austin Besley (Killara, Australia), Mark Harold Tarlinton (Marrickville, Australia) and David Arnold Bleads (Tennyson, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to improving image quality in a scanning camera system via scan angle selection to obtain images having overlap for performing image stitching, dynamically tuning an aperture of a camera in the scanning camera system, updating pixel values of an image using vignetting data, or a combination thereof."...