ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,547, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Smart sensor with region of interest capabilities" was invented by Nirav Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jia Feng (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, from an image sensor, one or more images that represent an object, and determining a speed of the object based on the one or more images. The method also includes determining that the speed of the object exceeds a threshold speed and, based on determining that the speed of the object exceeds the threshold speed, determining a region of interest (ROI) of the image sensor ex...