Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pool cleaning robot and a method for imaging a pool
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Application No.: US16266071Application Date: 2019-02-03
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Publication No.: US11493932B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Ofer Regev , Assy Tzalik , Yair Hadari , Shay Witelson
- Applicant: MAYTRONICS LTD.
- Applicant Address: IL Kibbutz Yizrael
- Assignee: MAYTRONICS LTD.
- Current Assignee: MAYTRONICS LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Kibbutz Yizrael
- Agency: Reches Patents
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; E04H4/16

Abstract:
A method for cleaning a region of a pool, the method may include moving a pool cleaning robot along a cleaning path that covers the region while acquiring, at first different points of time and by a sensing unit of the pool cleaning robot, first images of first scenes, at least one first scene at each first point of time; wherein the acquiring of the first images is executed while illuminating the first scenes by the pool cleaning robot; detecting, in at least one first image, illumination reflected or scattered as a result of the illuminating of the first scenes; removing from the at least one first image information about the illumination reflected or scattered; determining, based at least in part of on the first images, first locations of the pool cleaning robot; and wherein the moving is responsive to the first locations of the pool cleaning robot.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200249690A1 POOL CLEANING ROBOT AND A METHOD FOR IMAGING A POOL Public/Granted day:2020-08-06
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