ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,706, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).
"Remote distance estimation system and method" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Soroush Mehrnia (Helsingborg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for estimating distance to a surface, including: emitting, with a first laser light emitter and a second laser light emitter, a first light beam and a second light beam onto the surface; capturing, with a first image sensor, a first image of the first light beam and the second light beam emitted onto the surface; extracting, with at least one image processor, the first light beam and ...