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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Symbol Technologies, Llc, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Inventors:
Yan Zhang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Jay J. Williams, Glenview, IL (US);
Cuneyt M. Taskiran, Chicago, IL (US);
Kevin J. O'Connell, Palatine, IL (US);
Assignee:
Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for receiving a depth frame from a depth sensor oriented towards an open end of a shipping container, the depth frame comprising a plurality of grid elements that each have a respective depth value, identifying one or more occlusions in the depth frame, correcting the one or more occlusions in the depth frame using one or more temporally proximate depth frames, and outputting the corrected depth frame for fullness estimation.