US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI FLEXIV ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY, FLEXIV on Dec. 9 for "Cable detection method, robot and storage device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,981, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI FLEXIV ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and FLEXIV LTD. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Cable detection method, robot and storage device" was invented by Guangfei Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a cable detection method, a robot and a storage device. The method includes: acquiring an RGB image of a cable and a corresponding depth image; performing image segmentation on the RGB image, and merging pixel points in the RGB image, which are adjacent in position and have similar pixel features, into super-pixels; determining a target simi...