US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Oct. 20 for "Plane detecting device, and plane detecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,283, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Plane detecting device, and plane detecting method" was invented by Riku Matsumoto (Hyogo, Japan), Masamitsu Murase (Kyoto, Japan) and Ken Hatsuda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plane detecting device according to the present disclosure includes an information acquisition unit, a likelihood acquisition unit, and a plane detector. The information acquisition unit acquires visible image information of a target having a predetermined plane and 3D coordinate information corresponding to the visible image informatio...