US Patent Issued to FANUC on April 29 for "Imaging device for calculating three-dimensional position on the basis of image captured by visual sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,355, issued on April 29, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Imaging device for calculating three-dimensional position on the basis of image captured by visual sensor" was invented by Yuuki Takahashi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This imaging device comprises: an orientation detection unit that detects the orientation of a camera with respect to the direction of gravity; and a parameter setting unit that sets parameters for calculating a three-dimensional position corresponding to a specific position in an image captured by the camera. A storage unit stores setting information for setting parameters cor...