US Patent Issued to SICK on Aug. 18 for "Method for position calibration of a camera and a LIDAR sensor using a calibration board, and a position calibration system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,520, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Method for position calibration of a camera and a LIDAR sensor using a calibration board, and a position calibration system" was invented by Michael Lehning (Hildesheim, Germany), Matthias Honal (Wittnau, Germany), Raphael Engesser (Au, Germany) and Manuel Aiple (Denzlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for position calibration serves to fuse images of a camera and a LIDAR sensor. The camera records an image of a calibration board, wherein the pose of the calibration board relative to the camera can be determined based on known patterns. The L...