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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2010
Carl S. Weimer, Boluder, CO (US);
Tanya M. Ramond, Louisville, CO (US);
Carl M. Adkins, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeff T. Applegate, Superior, CO (US);
Thomas P. Delker, Lyons, CO (US);
Lyle S. Ruppert, Longmont, CO (US);
Carl S. Weimer, Boluder, CO (US);
Tanya M. Ramond, Louisville, CO (US);
Carl M. Adkins, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeff T. Applegate, Superior, CO (US);
Thomas P. Delker, Lyons, CO (US);
Lyle S. Ruppert, Longmont, CO (US);
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for adaptively controlling the illumination of a scene are provided. In particular, a scene is illuminated, and light reflected from the scene is detected. Information regarding levels of light intensity received by different pixels of a multiple pixel detector, corresponding to different areas within a scene, and/or information regarding a range to an area within a scene, is received. That information is then used as a feedback signal to control levels of illumination within the scene. More particularly, different areas of the scene can be provided with different levels of illumination in response to the feedback signal.