ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,987, issued on July 29, was assigned to NODAR Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for object identification with a calibrated stereo-vision system" was invented by Leaf Alden Jiang (Concord, Mass.), Philip Bradley Rosen (Lincoln, Mass.) and Piotr Swierczynski (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A long-baseline and long depth-range stereo vision system is provided that is suitable for use in non-rigid assemblies where relative motion between two or more cameras of the system does not degrade estimates of a depth map. The stereo vision system may include a processor that tracks camera parameters as a function of time to r...