ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,147, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Positioning a robot sensor for object classification" was invented by Bianca Homberg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeffrey Bingham (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first sensor on a robot, first sensor data indicative of an environment of the robot. The method also includes identifying, based on the first sensor data, an object of an object type in the environment of the robot, where the object type is associated with a classifier that takes sensor data from a predetermined pose relative t...