ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,718, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Image processing system and image processing method" was invented by Wanfeng Fu (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes: an industrial machine; a visual sensor; a visual pattern arranged on a part to be detected, for identifying a relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern; an image processing unit that determines the relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern on the basis of an image of the visual patter...