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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 18, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Bill Duran, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Adrian Mircea Proca, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling a camera mode is executed at a camera including a controller, a sensor array, an IR filter, and a lens assembly. The camera is operated in a night mode. While in the night mode the IR filter is not interposed between the lens assembly and the sensor array, the camera receives at the sensor array ambient light that is not filtered by the IR filter, determines whether the received ambient light is due to a light source other than an IR light source, and detects a light level of the received ambient light. The camera switches the operation of the camera from the night mode to a day mode when it is determined the received ambient light is due to a light source other than an IR light source and that the light level of the received ambient light exceeds a first threshold.