US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Dec. 9 for "Adaptive camera exposure control for navigating a UAV in low light conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,213, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive camera exposure control for navigating a UAV in low light conditions" was invented by Dinuka Abeywardena (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyle Krafka (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of camera exposure control for vision-based navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes acquiring an aerial image of a ground area below the UAV with an onboard camera system of the UAV, estimating a visual motion factor based on a speed of the UAV and an altitude of the UAV, and adjusting an exposure control setting of the onboard c...