ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,905, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Summer Robotics Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Foveated robotic vision system" was invented by Gerard Dirk Smits (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Steven Dean Gottke (Concord, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to vision systems. Enclosures that each include event scanners, beam generators, or frame cameras may be provided such that the event cameras or the frame cameras may be arranged to provide foveated resolution and such that the enclosures each may include an aperture that enables beams from the beam generators to scan a scene that may be in a field-of-view (FOV) of the apert...