US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Generating lighting map using ambient light sensor and tracking camera" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,843, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Generating lighting map using ambient light sensor and tracking camera" was invented by Ville Timonen (Helsinki) and Tuomas Tolli (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is head-mounted display (HMD) apparatus with an ambient light sensor (ALS), tracking camera (TC), video-see-through (VST) camera, and processor(s) configured to: capture average red-green-blue (RGB) illuminance (A) of region of real-world environment (RE) from HMD pose; capture grayscale image (GI) of RE from HMD pose, wherein pixel values indicate intensities (i); calculate avera...