US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 29 for "Posture determination method, computer-readable recording medium storing program, and component feeding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,690, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Posture determination method, computer-readable recording medium storing program, and component feeding apparatus" was invented by Tomoyoshi Yukimoto (Hachioji, Japan), Yasuyuki Kamai (Tokyo), Shigeki Nozawa (Gifu, Japan), Harumitsu Fujimori (Hino, Japan) and Kohei Hayashi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture determination method is to determine, based on an image acquired for a component having a plurality of surfaces, a posture of the component. This posture determination method includes recognizing an outer shape of the component from the ima...