US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Exclusion zone or inclusion zone generation for object detection" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,145, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Exclusion zone or inclusion zone generation for object detection" was invented by Duane Myklejord (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may obtain, from a camera, a first image and a second image depicting a work machine in an environment, where an implement of the work machine has moved, or the work machine has moved in the environment, in a depiction of the second image relative to the first image. The controller may generate a difference image that depicts a region of difference between the first image and the second image. The controll...