US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on April 7 for "Method, system, and computer program for recognizing position and posture of object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,160, issued on April 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Method, system, and computer program for recognizing position and posture of object" was invented by Masaki Hayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes generating an object image by capturing an image of the object with a camera, determining estimated depths of the object by using a depth estimator that receives the object image as input and outputs the estimated depths in the object image, determining whether the estimated depths are useable by using an identifier that receives at least ...