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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2023
Applicant:

Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);

Inventors:

Ralf Haeusler, Auckland, NZ;

Stuart Park, Auckland, NZ;

Mark Bell, Auckland, NZ;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 15/04 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0251 (2013.01); G01C 15/04 (2013.01); G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0234 (2013.01); G05D 1/0272 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30248 (2013.01);
Abstract

Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.


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