ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,543, issued on April 22.
"Automatic traveling device" was invented by Takuya Kitade (Tokyo), Keisuke Yamaya (Tokyo), Ryosuke Mizuno (Tokyo) and Takuma Matsumura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an automatic traveling device capable of automatically traveling along a desired route without performing positioning.An automatic traveling device 100 is a device that performs predetermined work on crops S which are detection targets arranged in its traveling direction. A camera 101 acquires image data by capturing an image of the crops S in the traveling direction of the automatic traveling device 100. The recognition unit 10...