US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 8 for "Image processing device, component gripping system, image processing method and component gripping method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,275, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Image processing device, component gripping system, image processing method and component gripping method" was invented by Atsushi Yamamoto (Iwata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite image is generated by combining a gray scale image, referred to as a luminance image, and a depth image respectively representing the plurality of components. In the generated composite image, the shape of the component at a relatively high position among the plurality of components easily remains, and the composite image is useful in confirming such a component....