US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on Sept. 8 for "Movable robot capable of identifying surface material" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,724, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Movable robot capable of identifying surface material" was invented by Chung-Ting Yang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Kai-Ho Tsai (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a robot including a first light source, a second light source, an image sensor and a processor. The processor is used to calculate an image quality of an image frame captured by the image sensor when the second light source is being turned on. The processor then determines whether to switch the second light source back to the first light source acc...