US Patent Issued to OMNIEYE HOLDINGS on Oct. 20 for "Method and system for livestock monitoring and management" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,285, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OMNIEYE HOLDINGS Ltd. (Oamaru, New Zealand).

"Method and system for livestock monitoring and management" was invented by Maria Mikhisor (Dunedin, New Zealand) and Benoit Auvray (Dunedin, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring livestock is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, calibration patterns are placed on the ground in the field of view of a camera. The calibration patterns are used to generate homographies usable to determine a 3D position of a 2D position on the ground in images captured by the camera. If a gravity direction is also determined,...