Wood optimization system, method of optimizing wood products and wood product selector therefore

    公开(公告)号:US12233568B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US17517809

    申请日:2021-11-03

    Abstract: There is described a wood optimization system for a production line. The wood optimization system generally having a conveyor moving wood products across a handling area; a wood product selector positioned proximate to a selected wood product in the handling area; and a computer vision system along the production line having a camera imaging the handling area, a processor communicatively coupled to the camera, and a computer-readable memory having program code that when executed by the processor perform the steps of: receiving from the camera an image representing at least a portion of the handling area; finding the wood product selector in the image; identifying the selected wood product in the image as the wood product of the plurality being most proximate to the wood product selector; receiving an instruction associated to the selected wood product; and implementing the instruction into optimization data associated to the selected wood product.

    Fingerprint capture system, fingerprint capture device, image processing apparatus, fingerprint capture method, and storage medium

    公开(公告)号:US12232866B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US18506236

    申请日:2023-11-10

    Abstract: A fingerprint capture system, a fingerprint capture device, an image processing apparatus, a fingerprint capture method, and a storage medium that can acquire a high quality fingerprint image are provided. A disclosed example includes: a capture unit that captures a fingerprint; an image processing unit that processes a transferred fingerprint image captured by the capture unit; a display unit on which the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is displayed; a recording unit where the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is recorded by the image processing unit; and an instruction unit that inputs, in the image processing unit, a record instruction that instructs the image processing unit to record the fingerprint image in the recording unit. The image processing unit records, in the recording unit, the fingerprint image displayed on the display unit at the time the record instruction is input by the instruction unit.

    Belt conveyor calibration method, robot control method, and robot system

    公开(公告)号:US12226915B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US17494916

    申请日:2021-10-06

    Inventor: Masato Yokota

    Abstract: A belt conveyor calibration method includes transporting a marker by a belt of a belt conveyor, imaging the marker by a first camera, detecting the marker passing through one section of a plurality of sections formed by division of a first imaging area of the first camera from a captured image of the first camera, moving a second camera by a robot and tracking and imaging the detected marker by the second camera, and calculating and storing a correction value as a difference between a position of the marker estimated from a transportation amount of the belt and a position of the marker detected from an image of the marker tracked and imaged.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE IMAGING

    公开(公告)号:US20250054092A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-13

    申请号:US18931807

    申请日:2024-10-30

    Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a tissue imaging system includes a cassette configured to retain a tissue for imaging. The cassette includes a first cassette portion and a second cassette portion. The first cassette portion includes a recess formed in a central portion thereof, a window formed within the recess, and a first connection mechanism affixed thereto. The second cassette portion includes a cavity configured to compress a tissue therein and a second connection mechanism affixed thereto. An imaging device is configured to image the tissue through the window. Aligning the first connection mechanism and the second connection mechanism causes the first cassette portion to couple to the second cassette portion, compressing the tissue into the cavity for imaging.

    TEMPORAL DECOUPLING IN IMAGE-BASED LOCALIZATION AT SCALE

    公开(公告)号:US20250035443A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-30

    申请号:US18843509

    申请日:2023-03-02

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus to generate an image-based localization model for mobile robot navigation. The method includes performing data collection at a plurality of different service locations, to which a fleet of mobile robots is deployable, to generate collected data, dividing the collected data into a plurality of blocks of consecutive portions of the collected data, generating a first image-based localization model and a second image-based localization model for a first and respectively, second service location of the plurality of different service locations, using the collected data. The method further includes deploying the first image-based localization model and the second image-based localization model to a first and, respectively, second mobile robot of the fleet of mobile robots, the first image-based localization model and the second image-based localization model being used to navigate the first and, respectively, the second service location of the plurality of different service locations.

    EMBEDDING DATA IN VIDEO WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20250029199A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18889754

    申请日:2024-09-19

    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-program products are provided for adding data to a digital video signal in a visually imperceptible manner. For example, a region of pixels can be identified in a video frame, and one or more pixel characteristics of the region of pixels can be determined. Based on the one or more pixel characteristics of the region of pixels, at least one pixel characteristic of a subset of pixels from the region of pixels can be modified in order to encode a set of data into the region of pixels. An output frame can be provided that includes the modified at least one pixel characteristics for the subset of pixels.

    Mimicked machine-readable codes, and methods

    公开(公告)号:US12205190B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-21

    申请号:US17516464

    申请日:2021-11-01

    Inventor: Ajith M. Kamath

    Abstract: In one aspect, a 2D machine readable code is mimicked by a collection of graphic elements. This can involve choosing a location, within an input 2D code block, at which correlation between a first graphic element and the input 2D code block is maximized. An area around this location is then disqualified from further consideration. A second location is next chosen, within the input 2D code block but outside the disqualified area, at which correlation between a second graphic element and the input 2D code block is maximized. The process continues in this fashion, adding graphics and removing additional areas from consideration, until a threshold number of graphic elements has been placed. The elements are then assembled in their corresponding locations to yield a composite image block that provides features mimicking that of the input 2D code block, thereby enabling the composite image block to be decoded by a compliant code reader. A great variety of other signal rich art arrangements are also detailed.

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