US Patent Issued to NEC Corporation Of America on Sept. 22 for "Monocular obstacle detection on a drone flight path" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,098, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).

"Monocular obstacle detection on a drone flight path" was invented by Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product for monocular obstacle detection on a drone flight path. A drone is instructed to move forward at a constant horizontal speed and concurrently perform a planned motion in at least one perpendicular direction. A monocular camera mounted on the drone is operated to capture one or more image pairs comprising at least a first frame captured along the flight path and a second f...