ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,203, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).
"Vision based aircraft cabin ambient light control" was invented by Rameshkumar Balasubramanian (Karnataka, India) and Joseph T. Pesik (Eagan, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-based aircraft cabin light monitoring/control system is used to maintain the light intensity level within the aircraft cabin at a desired level. The system uses video cameras to continuously monitor the ambient light entering the passenger cabin windows, analyzes the video stream/feed to identify the light intensity level within the cabin, identifies the window whos...