US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on May 26 for "Image processing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,790, issued on May 26, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image processing device" was invented by Kyosuke Tawara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention allows a user to make trigger settings without editing a robot program and to automatically issue a trigger at optimum timing among the settings. A processor determines, based on timing at which a hand moves out of a capture range of a sensor on a path, timing of issuing a trigger that causes the sensor to capture the next image to dynamically change capture timing of the sensor for each cycle of a picking motion."

The patent was filed on June ...