Patent ID: 11936989
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
determine auto-exposure targets for the pixel units into which the image frame is divided,
determine, based on the auto-exposure values determined for the pixel units and the weight values assigned to the pixel units, a frame auto-exposure value for the image frame,
determine, based on the auto-exposure targets determined for the pixel units and the weight values assigned to the pixel units, a frame auto-exposure target for the image frame, and
determine, based on the frame auto-exposure value and the frame auto-exposure target, a frame auto-exposure gain; and

the updating the one or more auto-exposure parameters includes updating the one or more auto-exposure parameters based on the frame auto-exposure gain.