# Flock patent US 12,322,186 - multi-wavelength IR and local filtering architecture
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## Source metadata
- **Publisher:** United States Patent and Trademark Office
- **Original dossier URL:** https://patents.justia.com/patent/12322186
- **Resolved/canonical URL used:** https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/12322186
- **Publication date:** 2025-06-03
- **Underlying event or version:** not separately stated
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## Verification verdict
**supported with narrower wording** — US 12,322,186 B1 supports what Flock claimed and disclosed in the patent. It does not establish universal implementation or a current BOM.
## Claim boundary
This source is authoritative only within the source class and limitations stated above.
## Extract
**Extracted-text lines 242-246:**
> H04N23/11
> —
> Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof for generating image signals from different wavelengths for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths
> H
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**Extracted-text lines 328-332:**
> is a functional block diagram of one exemplary embodiment of a camera module that is one component of the exemplary camera system of FIG. 2 ;
> FIG. 4 A
> is a first logical flow chart for an exemplary method for capturing and filtering images using multiple electromagnetic wavelengths (i.e. infrared wavelengths) by the camera system illustrated in FIGS. 1 - 3 ;
> FIG. 4 B
> is a second logical flow chart of the exemplary method for capturing and filtering images using multiple electromagnetic wavelengths by the camera system illustrated in FIGS. 1 - 3 ;
**Extracted-text lines 376-380:**
> may be a component.
> One or more components
> may reside within a process and/or thread of execution, and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers.
> these components
> may execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon.
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## Notes
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