US Patent Issued to Summer Robotics on March 25 for "Perceiving scene features using event sensors and image sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,127, issued on March 25, was assigned to Summer Robotics Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Perceiving scene features using event sensors and image sensors" 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 perceiving scene features using event sensors and image sensors. Paths may be scanned across objects in a scene with one or more beams. Images of the scene may be captured with frame cameras. Events may be generated based on detection of beam reflections that correspond to the objects. Trajectories may be based on the paths and the event...