US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on March 24 for "Mechanism capable of detecting motions of different surface textures without needing to perform object identification operation" (Taiwanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,209, issued on March 24, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Mechanism capable of detecting motions of different surface textures without needing to perform object identification operation" was invented by Chung-Ting Yang (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Chin Seang Seow (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of an optical sensor includes: using a single image sensor array of the optical sensor to capture and generate an image frame; selecting a plurality of image regions within the image frame, the plurality of image regions being not overlapped; detecting a plurality of motion results of the ...