US 12,356,069 B1
Managing logical camera devices
Thomas Lay, Highland Park, IL (US); Lorne Joseph LaMeer, Burlington, WA (US); Tarun Reddy Karra, Leander, TX (US); Alice Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Hengzhi Chen, San Jose, CA (US); and Choudhary Omer Rafique, Ewing Township, NJ (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/361,899.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/661 (2023.01) [H04N 23/611 (2023.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a physical camera device controlled by a physical camera manager in communication with the physical camera device;
a first logical camera device in communication with the physical camera manager, wherein the first logical camera device controls the physical camera device via the physical camera manager;
a first camera application in communication with the first logical camera device;
a second logical camera device in communication with the physical camera manager; and
a second camera application in communication, via the physical camera manager, with the first camera application, wherein the first camera application provides first data to the second camera application, via the physical camera manager to determine a command to set a preview parameter for the physical camera device.