ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,667, issued on March 17, was assigned to Chef Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and/or method for conveyor motion estimation" was invented by Norberto A. Goussies (San Francisco) and Clement Creusot (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method can include: sampling images of a conveyor region S110; determining a set of patches S120; estimating a displacement for each patch S130; estimating a conveyor motion parameter(s) based on the patch displacement S140; and optionally performing an action based on the conveyor motion parameter S150. However, the method S100 can additionally or alternatively include any other sui...