Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-25
2010-10-19
Ometz, David L (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
C348S229100, C348S362000, C396S213000, C396S236000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07817206
ABSTRACT:
An embodiment of the invention is a method of generating a final exposure setting, including, (a) selecting one of a number of predetermined exposure settings as a current exposure setting for a solid state camera having a camera imager, (b) generating a captured scene by the camera imager using the current exposure setting, (c) selecting according to an automated search methodology another one of the exposure settings to be the current setting in response to the captured scene being underexposed or overexposed, and, (d) repeating (b) and (c) until the captured scene is neither underexposed or overexposed.
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Bell Cynthia S.
Hansen Amy E.
Raj Kannan
Tomaszewski Edward P.
Bemben Richard M
Blakely , Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
Intel Corporation
Ometz David L
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