ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,593, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Camera array calibration in a farming machine" was invented by James Patrick Ostrowski (Mountain View, Calif.), John William Peake (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jacqueline Gao Song (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The calibration system of the farming machine receives images from the camera array. The images comprise visual information representing a view of a portion of an area surrounding the farming machine. To calibrate the camera array, the system determines a relative pose between pairs of cameras by extracting relative position and orientation char...