US Patent Issued to OMRON on April 14 for "Floor surface condition detection device, distance measuring device equipped with same, floor surface condition detection method, and floor surface condition detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,586, issued on April 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Floor surface condition detection device, distance measuring device equipped with same, floor surface condition detection method, and floor surface condition detection program" was invented by Hiroyuki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Hideki Chujo (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Kinoshita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit (10) is a device for detecting the condition of a floor surface (FL) on which a target (30) has been placed, and comprises a distance calculation unit (11) and a target detection unit (18). The distance calculation unit (11) calculate...