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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:
Jun. 24, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2022
Applicant:

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmb, Wuppertal, DE;

Inventors:

Pawel Orzechowski, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);

Ron Domingo, San Jose, CA (US);

Stephanie Blankley, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 11/40 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); G05D 1/0238 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01); G06V 10/803 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments provide a method for obstacle avoidance in a mobile robot. Images of objects are captured with mobile robot image sensors with a floor level perspective. Data corresponding to the images is used to train a neural network. The identified objects are classified by indicating whether the objects are a potential hazard. In one embodiment, an image sensor on a robot provides intensity and depth data for each of a plurality of pixels of the images. The intensity and depth data are fused to produce fused data. The fused data is then used to train the neural network.


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