ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,476, issued on March 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Adjustable vertical field of view" was invented by Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeremy Dittmer (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described may related to an imaging sensor used by a vehicle, including a light sensor. The light sensor comprises a plurality of cells aligned in a plurality of horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns. The apparatus further includes an optical system configured to provide the light sensor with a field of view of an external environment of the apparatus. Additionally, the syst...