ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,758, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Visual feedback controller" was invented by Hiroyuki Sekiguchi (Tokyo) and Takeyuki Kawata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual feedback controller includes: a camera that outputs a target object image; a template image storage unit that stores a template image; an image processing unit that uses the target object image and the template image to measure an actual position of a target object with subpixel accuracy, and outputs the measured actual position as an image processing measurement value; a drive command generation unit that generates a drive...