US Patent Issued to Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology on April 21 for "Ranging method and apparatus, robot, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,006, issued on April 21, was assigned to Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Ranging method and apparatus, robot, and storage medium" was invented by Yang Yu (Beijing) and Zhen Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging method includes determining a first distance of the object to be measured relative to the self-mobile robot, where content in the first image comprises at least the object and a surface on which the object is located; selecting a point located on the object from the first image as a 5 reference point; determining initial parallax based on the first distance; and determining a region ...