US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on Aug. 25 for "Obstacle recognition method and apparatus, and device, medium and weeding robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,568, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Obstacle recognition method and apparatus, and 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, wherein the contour information includes chrominance information, range information, and rough...