US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Automatic guided vehicle positioning based upon passage width" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,777, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Automatic guided vehicle positioning based upon passage width" was invented by Shoko Miura (Tokyo) and Makoto Tomioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to select at least one map element from first three-dimensional map information including map elements each including a position and orientation of an image capturing apparatus mounted on a mobile object and three-dimensional positional information in an environment about a feature point included in an image of the environment captur...