US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on Sept. 30 for "Calibrating a camera for mapping image pixels to grid points in a storage system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,802, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Calibrating a camera for mapping image pixels to grid points in a storage system" was invented by Xiaokai Cui (Hatfield, Great Britain), Christopher Pearman (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Jonathan Schuchart (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for calibrating a wide-angle or ultra wide-angle camera disposed above a grid of a storage system. An image of a grid section and initial values of a plurality of parameters corresponding to the camera are obtained. The image is processed, using a neural network trai...