ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,704, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Marker detection apparatus and robot teaching system" was invented by Makoto Ikeguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a marker detection apparatus able to easily detect the position of a marker and a robot teaching system using the same. A marker detection apparatus includes: a three-dimensional plane detection unit that detects a three-dimensional plane serving as a plane in a three-dimensional space on a basis of point group data acquired by a 3D camera; a two-dimensional plane image generation unit that projects point group data constitu...