US Patent Issued to FANUC on April 14 for "Simulation device using three-dimensional position information obtained from output from vision sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,040, issued on April 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Simulation device using three-dimensional position information obtained from output from vision sensor" was invented by Takashi Yamazaki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This simulation device comprises a simulation implementation unit that simulates a movement of a robot device, and estimates a movement path of a robot. The simulation device comprises a position information generation unit that generates three-dimensional position information for a surface of a workpiece on the basis of the output of a vision sensor, which has imaged an actual...