ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,405, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging systems, devices and methods" was invented by Madani Arioua (Grez-Doiceau, Belgium) and Pepe Gil-Cacho (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system comprising circuitry configured to obtain (S2) image data of a scene that is illuminated with patterned light (PL), determine (S5, S6) bright regions and dark regions based on the image data, and relate image information related to the bright regions to image information related to the dark regions in order to determine characteristics of atmospheric ae...