US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on April 21 for "Obstacle recognition method and apparatus, device, medium and weeding robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,942, issued on April 21, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Obstacle recognition method and apparatus, device, medium and weeding robot" was invented by Shaoming Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Xue Ren (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle recognition method includes determining a candidate obstacle region in a candidate weeding region image according to color information of the candidate weeding region image; obtaining contour information of the candidate obstacle region and chrominance information and value information of the candidate weeding region image; and dete...