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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2021
Applicant:

Verily Life Sciences Llc, South San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aurelien Bouvier, Woodside, CA (US);

Nishant Verma, Burlingame, CA (US);

James Polans, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verily Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); H04N 9/04557 (2018.08);
Abstract

An imaging system and method for imaging a scene using a rolling shutter are described. In an embodiment, the method includes illuminating a scene with first and second illumination light; generating frame signals with a photodetector comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows, wherein the frame signals are based on light received from the scene with sequentially integrated rows of pixels of the plurality of rows, and wherein a frame signal includes signals from pixels of each of the plurality of rows; and generating images of the scene based on an intensity of the frame signals and the proportion of the first illumination light and the second illumination light emitted onto the scene during the first and second frames, wherein a proportion of the first illumination light and the second illumination light in a first frame is different than in a second frame.


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