ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,328, issued on June 10, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Camera having two exposure modes and imaging system using the same" was invented by Wen-Han Yao (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Wen-Cheng Yen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Han-Chang Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging system including a camera and a control host. The camera identifies ambient light intensity and performs trigger event detection in a low power mode. When the camera detects a trigger event in the low power mode, the control host is woken up. The camera also determines an exposure mode accordi...