US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 18 for "Smart sensor implementations of region of interest operating modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,673, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart sensor implementations of region of interest operating modes" was invented by Nirav Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.) and Lucian Ion (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels that form a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs), and configured to operate at a frame rate higher than a threshold rate. The system also includes an image processing resource. The system further includes control circuitry configured to perform operations that include obtaining, from the image sensor, a full-resolu...