US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on July 21 for "Obstacle recongnition method applied to automatic traveling device and automatic traveling device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,698, issued on July 21, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou City, China).

"Obstacle recongnition method applied to automatic traveling device and automatic traveling device" 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 applied to an automatic traveling device may include the steps of: obtaining an image of an environment in a traveling direction of an automatic traveling device; separating out a chrominance channel image and a luminance channel image based on the image; performing pre-processing and edge...