US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 14 for "Adaptive region of interest (ROI) for vision guided robotic bin picking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,966, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Adaptive region of interest (ROI) for vision guided robotic bin picking" was invented by Ajay Balasubramanian (Oakland, Calif.), Eugen Solowjow (Berkeley, Calif.), Ines Ugalde Diaz (Redwood City, Calif.) and Chengtao Wen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system can include a depth camera configured to capture a depth image of a bin that contains a plurality of objects from a first direction, so as to define a captured image. Based on the bottom end of the bin and the captured image, the system can generate a cropped region that defines a pl...