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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:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Pointgrab Ltd., Hod Hasharon, IL;
Inventor:
David Bitton, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
POINTGRAB LTD., Hod Hasharon, IL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/42 (2006.01); H05B 37/02 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2017.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/0218 (2013.01); G01J 1/4204 (2013.01); G01J 1/4228 (2013.01); G06T 7/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems according to embodiments of the invention calculate ambient light in a space, where the method includes obtaining an image of the space from an array of pixels, defining a plurality of pixel groups in the image, calculating a representative pixel value for each of the pixel groups, and calculating ambient light in the space based on the pixels in the image, disregarding pixels from the pixel groups having the highest and lowest representative pixel values.