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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2012
Lee F. Holeva, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Edwin R. Elston, El Paso, TX (US);
Eric L. Jensen, Troy, OH (US);
Michael J. Seelinger, South Bend, IN (US);
Lee F. Holeva, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Edwin R. Elston, El Paso, TX (US);
Eric L. Jensen, Troy, OH (US);
Michael J. Seelinger, South Bend, IN (US);
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for determining which of a plurality of possible lines is most likely to be an actual line passing through a possible corner of a pallet. The method may comprise: providing a Ro image comprising pixels valued to generally correspond to an orthogonal distance from an origin point in the Ro image to one or more possible lines in a corresponding grey scale image; providing, using a computer, a location in the Ro image corresponding to a possible pallet corner; defining, using the computer, a plurality of possible lines passing through the possible pallet corner, each of the possible lines being respectively oriented at one angle within a range of angles to an axis of the Ro image; and determining, using the computer, which of the plurality of possible lines is most likely to be the actual line passing through the possible pallet corner.