ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,686, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Mixed depth object detection" was invented by Vlad Gorodetsky (North York, Canada), Giorgio Gallina (Hamilton, Canada), Anshul V. Joshi (Mississauga, Canada), Richard Jeffrey Rzeszutek (Toronto) and Joseph Lam (North York, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining (i) a point cloud, captured by a depth sensor, of a structure and an obstruction, and (ii) a plurality of local structure planes derived from the point cloud and corresponding to respective portions of the structure, for each local structure plane: selecting a m...