Patent ID: 8761594

Claim:
A method, comprising: performing, by one or more computing devices: obtaining an image of a field of view captured by a camera; detecting, in the image, an object in the field of view of the camera; determining, in the image, one or more regions of motion of the object in the field of view of the camera; mapping the one or more regions of motion to an illumination array comprising a plurality of illumination elements, wherein the illumination array covers the field of view of the camera, wherein each illumination element in the illumination array comprises a respective light-emitting element configured to emit a beam of light and a respective optical element configured to affect the beam of light, and wherein each illumination element covers a particular region of the field of view of the camera; and adjusting the plurality of illumination elements in the illumination array to selectively illuminate one or more regions of the field of view of the camera corresponding to the one or more regions of motion of the object in the field of view of the camera.