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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
May. 26, 2017
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Rafat Mehdi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Niewood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason Evans Goulden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Amber Luttmann Volmering, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cheng-Jung Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Boyd, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Scott Kilgore, San Rafael, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for illuminating and capturing scenes. In one aspect, a video camera assembly includes: (1) one or more processors configured to operate the video camera assembly in a day mode and in a night mode; (2) an image sensor having a field of view of a scene and configured to capture video of a first portion of the scene while in the day mode of operation and in the night mode of operation, the first portion corresponding to the field of view of the image sensor; (3) one or more infrared (IR) illuminators configured to provide illumination during the night mode of operation while the image sensor captures video; and (4) an IR reflector component configured to: (i) substantially restrict the illumination onto the first portion of the scene, and (ii) illuminate the first portion in a substantially uniform manner across the field of view of the image sensor.