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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:
Feb. 11, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Yumiko Kato, Osaka, JP;

Satoshi Sato, Kyoto, JP;

Yoshihide Sawada, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06V 10/141 (2022.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/60 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G05B 13/0265 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06V 10/141 (2022.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/60 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10152 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01);
Abstract

An object recognition apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit causes the light source to emit first light toward a scene and subsequently emit second light toward the scene, the first light having a first spatial distribution, the second light having a second spatial distribution. The control circuit causes the image sensor to detect first reflected light and second reflected light in the same exposure period, the first reflected light being caused by reflection of the first light from the scene, the second reflected light being caused by reflection of the second light from the scene. The signal processing circuit recognizes an object included in a scene based on photodetection data output from the image sensor, and based on an object recognition model pre-trained by a machine learning algorithm.


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