ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,205, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Foveated imager for automotive applications" was invented by Ralph Hamilton Shepard (Menlo Park, Calif.), Joseph Patrick Warga (San Francisco) and Lucian Ion (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to foveated imagers for automotive applications. An example embodiment includes a device. The device includes a rotationally symmetric foveated lens. The rotationally symmetric foveated lens is configured to receive light from an environment. The rotationally symmetric foveated lens is also configured to produce an image at a...