US Patent Issued to CANON on June 10 for "Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,416, issued on June 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Ryuta Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing system that is capable of preventing contact between an obstacle and a movable apparatus regardless of the state of the movable apparatus, comprising an obstacle information acquisition unit configured to detect a position and a height of an obstacle in a traveling direction of a movable apparatus, a ground clearance detection unit configured to detect the ground clearance, which is the height from...