Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-stitching for dimensioning
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Application No.: US16140953Application Date: 2018-09-25
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Publication No.: US10402956B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Brian L. Jovanovski , Jingquan Li
- Applicant: Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US SC Fort Mill
- Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US SC Fort Mill
- Agency: Additon, Higgins & Pendleton, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06K7/10
- IPC: G06K7/10 ; G07G1/00 ; H04N5/913 ; H04N7/18 ; G06T5/50 ; G05B19/402 ; H04N13/204 ; H04N13/282 ; G01B11/25 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N13/254 ; B65G1/137

Abstract:
Dimensioning systems may automate or assist with determining the physical dimensions of an object without the need for a manual measurement. A dimensioning system may project a light pattern onto the object, capture an image of the reflected pattern, and observe changes in the imaged pattern to obtain a range image, which contains 3D information corresponding to the object. Then, using the range image, the dimensioning system may calculate the dimensions of the object. In some cases, a single range image does not contain 3D data sufficient for dimensioning the object. To mitigate or solve this problem, the present invention embraces capturing a plurality of range images from different perspectives, and then combining the range images (e.g., using image-stitching) to form a composite range-image, which can be used to determine the object's dimensions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190026878A1 IMAGE-STITCHING FOR DIMENSIONING Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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