US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 11 for "Multiple operating modes to expand dynamic range" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,447, issued on March 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multiple operating modes to expand dynamic range" was invented by Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeremy Dittmer (Mountain View, Calif.), Brendan Hermalyn (San Francisco) and Benjamin Ingram (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to multiple operating modes to expand dynamic range. An example embodiment includes a camera system. The camera system may include a first image sensor having a first dynamic range corresponding to a first range of luminance levels in a scene. The system may also include a second imag...