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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Ilya Brailovskiy, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gordon McLean Downie, Cambridge, GB;
Qi Keith Wang, Cambridge, GB;
Alessio Carosi, Waterbeach, GB;
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/18 (2021.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); G02B 5/28 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/201 (2013.01); G02B 5/208 (2013.01); G02B 5/281 (2013.01); G03B 7/18 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); G02F 1/0147 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a camera device may include an optical filter. The camera device may attempt to actuate the optical filter from an inactive position to an active position, record video, count a quantity of pixels, and/or a quantity of lines of pixels, in one or more frames of the video that are a color that is characteristic of the absence of the optical filter, determine that the quantity is greater than a threshold, and again attempt to move the optical filter to its active position.