US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on March 4 for "Adaptive illumination for a time-of-flight camera on a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,933, issued on March 4, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Adaptive illumination for a time-of-flight camera on a vehicle" was invented by Ke Xu (San Diego), Xue Mei (San Diego) and Zehua Huang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for capturing an image. In one aspect an electronic camera apparatus includes an image sensor with a plurality of pixel regions. The apparatus further includes an exposure controller. The exposure controller determines, for each of the plurality of pixel regions, a corresponding exposure duration and a corresponding exposure start time. Each pixel reg...