ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,617, issued on March 17, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Detection of objects of a moving object stream" was invented by Romain Muller (Waldkirch, Germany) and Dirk Strohmeier (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera device is provided that has an image sensor having a plurality of pixel elements for recording image data of an object stream of objects moving in a direction of movement relative to the camera device and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to read and further process the image data from the image sensor, wherein the image sensor is configured as a high frequency binary ima...