US Patent Issued to PIXART IMAGING on March 25 for "Moving robot capable of recognizing carpet" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,732, issued on March 25, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Moving robot capable of recognizing carpet" was invented by Guo-Zhen Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a moving robot including a light projector, an image sensor and a processing unit. The light projector projects a vertical light segment and a horizontal light segment toward a moving direction. The image sensor captures, toward the moving direction, an image frame containing a first light segment image associated with the vertical light segment and a second light segment image associated with the ho...