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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2011
Applicants:
Patrick Yasuo Maeda, Mountain View, CA (US);
Martin Edward Hoover, Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Yasuo Maeda, Mountain View, CA (US);
Martin Edward Hoover, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
First and second camera parameters are optimized for detecting a respective retroreflective and non-retroreflective object. A sequential series of first and second video frames are captured based on the first and second camera parameters, and the retroreflective and non-retroreflective object are detected in a camera scene based on the respective first and second video frames of the series.