ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,721, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Determining optimal camera settings" was invented by Anil Kumar (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Sasidhar Saladi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided comprising illuminating a camera test target according to a first light setting associated with an ambient light condition experienced by a vehicle traversing an environment; determining, based at least in part on the first image and on a known characteristic of the camera test target, a first image quality indicator; and determining, based at least in part on the first image quality ...