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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2023
Applicants:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Autoever Corp., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4185 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45018 (2013.01);
Abstract
A location tracking system includes a plurality of markers disposed on a fixture in an area having an absolute coordinate in the factory, an image collecting device fixedly attached to a tracking target for management, configured to recognize an absolute location of a reference marker detected by a visual odometry (VO) method in an image captured by a camera, and estimate a relative location based on the absolute location of the reference marker; and a server configured to track a location of the target based on the relative location received through a wireless communication from the image collecting device.