ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,080, issued on June 3, was assigned to CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY (Shaanxi, China).
"Dual-neighborhood wear angle automatic detection method" was invented by Mei Xiao (Shaanxi, China), Lei Zhang (Shaanxi, China), Bing Yang (Shaanxi, China), Kairui Du (Shaanxi, China) and Ting Xu (Shaanxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dual-neighborhood wear angle automatic detection method, including constructing a proximal neighborhood and establishing grayscale differences between a pixel in a center area and pixels having first directions in the proximal neighborhood; calculating, based on the grayscale differences, deviation degrees ...