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公开(公告)号:US20240012424A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-11
申请号:US18371471
申请日:2023-09-22
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
CPC classification number: A47L11/4011 , G05D1/0246 , G05D1/0238 , G05D1/0255 , G06T3/4007 , G06T7/62 , A47L2201/04 , G05D2201/0203
Abstract: There is provided a moving robot including a light projector, an image sensor and a processing unit. The light projector projects a vertical light segment toward a moving direction. The image sensor captures, toward the moving direction, an image frame containing a light segment image associated with the vertical light segment. The processing unit calculates a step distance and a segment feature according to the image frame, outputs a flag signal according to the segment feature to indicate whether the calculated step distance is confident or not, and perform a pixel interpolation in calculating the step distance to improve the identification accuracy.
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公开(公告)号:US20230364797A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-16
申请号:US18226503
申请日:2023-07-26
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
CPC classification number: B25J9/1697 , B25J13/089 , G06T7/70 , B25J9/163 , B25J9/1653 , A47L2201/04 , B25J5/00 , G06T2207/20081 , B25J9/0003 , G05D1/0221 , B25J11/0085 , A47L11/4011 , G05D1/0238
Abstract: There is provided a mobile robot that controls an exposure time of an optical sensor during a time interval during which images of a gap between tiles are captured. At an end of the time interval that an image of a gap between tiles is captured, the exposure time of the optical sensor is adjust to the exposure time being used right before the time interval to avoid high brightness of the captured image while the image of a gap between tiles is suddenly disappeared from a field of view of the optical sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20230359264A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-09
申请号:US18222468
申请日:2023-07-16
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
IPC: G06F1/3234 , G06F3/0354 , G06F3/038 , G06F3/03
CPC classification number: G06F1/3259 , G06F3/03543 , G06F3/038 , G06F3/0354 , G06F3/0317 , Y02D10/00
Abstract: A sensor device includes an image sensing array, a frame buffer, a first read line, a second read line and an energy accumulator. The image sensing array is configured to sense reflected light from a working surface and includes a plurality of sensing pixels and a plurality of self-powered pixels. The sensing pixels respectively output image data according to the sensed reflected light. The self-powered pixels respectively output photocurrent according to the sensed reflected light. The first read line is coupled between the sensing pixels and the frame buffer. The second read line is coupled between the self-powered pixels and the frame buffer. The energy accumulator stores electrical energy of the photocurrent via a charge path between the self-powered pixels and the energy accumulator.
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公开(公告)号:US20220191380A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-16
申请号:US17687986
申请日:2022-03-07
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor is used to detect light and output an image frame. The processor identifies intensity of ambient light according to an image parameter associated with the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be strong enough, the processor performs an object identification directly using the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be not enough, the processor firstly converts the image frame to a converted image using a machine learning model, and then performs the object identification using the converted image.
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公开(公告)号:US20220074736A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-10
申请号:US17530938
申请日:2021-11-19
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
Abstract: There is provided an optical distance measurement system including an image sensor and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to generate an image to be calculated according to at least one image captured by the image sensor, wherein different image regions of the image to be calculated correspond to different exposure times thereby improving the accuracy of the distance calculation.
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公开(公告)号:US20210149050A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US17162826
申请日:2021-01-29
Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG , MING-TSAN KAO
IPC: G01S17/46
Abstract: Disclosed are a distance measuring method and a distance measuring apparatus. During the distance measuring, an image is obtained. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a first segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point, according to a first mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a second segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point according to a second mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image.
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公开(公告)号:US20210016449A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US17064776
申请日:2020-10-07
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
Abstract: There is provided a mobile robot that controls an exposure time of an optical sensor during a time interval during which images of a gap between tiles are captured. At an end of the time interval that an image of a gap between tiles is captured, the exposure time of the optical sensor is adjust to the exposure time being used right before the time interval to avoid high brightness of the captured image while the image of a gap between tiles is suddenly disappeared from a field of view of the optical sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20200374446A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-26
申请号:US16993433
申请日:2020-08-14
Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG
Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor is used to detect light and output an image frame. The processor identifies intensity of ambient light according to an image parameter associated with the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be strong enough, the processor performs an object identification directly using the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be not enough, the processor firstly converts the image frame to a converted image using a machine learning model, and then performs the object identification using the converted image.
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公开(公告)号:US20190187289A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US16281330
申请日:2019-02-21
Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG , MING-TSAN KAO
Abstract: Disclosed are a distance measuring method and a distance measuring apparatus. During the distance measuring, an image is obtained. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a first segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point, according to a first mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image. If the location of a center of gravity of the image is within a second segment, the calculating unit calculates a distance between the object and the distance measuring apparatus corresponding to the projection point according to a second mapping relationship and the location of a center of gravity of the image.
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公开(公告)号:US20170351908A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-07
申请号:US15371909
申请日:2016-12-07
Applicant: PIXART IMAGING INC.
Inventor: GUO-ZHEN WANG , HAN-CHANG LIN
CPC classification number: H04N5/23245 , G06K9/00255 , G06K9/22 , H04N5/23219 , H04N5/23241
Abstract: Disclosed are a portable electronic device and an operation method thereof. The built-in image sensor of the portable electronic device continually captures a first image, detects whether there is a face image information in the first image, and accordingly determines whether to turn on a camera of the portable electronic device to capture a second image having a higher resolution. After that, the recognition module of the portable electronic device recognizes at least one facial feature in the second image.
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