US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 23 for "Coordinate system setting system and position/orientation measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,424, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Coordinate system setting system and position/orientation measurement system" was invented by Shoutarou Ogura (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a coordinate system setting system with which it is possible to easily set a coordinate system used in control of an industrial machine, A coordinate system setting system 1 comprises: a calibrated camera 4; a calibration data storage unit 12 that stores, in advance, calibration data obtained when the camera 4 was calibrated; an image processing unit 11 that...