ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,074, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Takeshi Aoki (Osaka, Japan), Akihito Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Kasahara (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device can dynamically set an appropriate object detection region according to a state of an inherently unobstructive moving object. The device includes: an optical scanning unit configured to scan measurement light in a measurement space and to guide reflected light from a reflector; a reflector detection unit configured to detect reflector information including a d...