ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,529, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Auto-exposure occlusion camera" was invented by Colin Braley (Mountain View, Calif.), Po-Chao Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Chase Salsbury (San Mateo, Calif.) and Hanna Revinskaya (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving, from a light detector, information indicative of a light intensity of a field of view of an optical system. The optical system includes one or more optical components and a light detector configured to receive light from a field of view of an environment of the optical system by way of the...