US Patent Issued to Kobelco Construction Machinery on Nov. 3 for "Remote operation support system and remote operation support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,471, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Remote operation support system and remote operation support method" was invented by Hitoshi Sasaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan) and Kazuhiro Ueda (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote operation support system and method that can improve spatial recognition accuracy by an operator who remotely operates work machine is provided. A captured image representing a sight around work machine (40) is captured by an imaging device (412b) mounted on the work machine (40). A synthetic image is generated by superi...