US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on Jan. 27 for "Obstacle recognition method, apparatus, and device, medium and weeding robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,805, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Obstacle recognition method, apparatus, and device, medium and weeding robot" was invented by Shaoming Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Xue Ren (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle recognition method includes the steps of: determining a candidate obstacle region in a candidate weeding region image according to color information of the candidate weeding region image; obtaining contour information of the candidate obstacle region and value information of the candidate weeding region image; and determining, accord...