Granted Patent B2

US 12,496,719 · App. 18/482,966 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Inventors: Charles Martin (St. Petersburg, FL); Christopher Jones (St. Petersburg, FL)

B25J9/1676B25J9/1653B25J19/023

Abstract

Claims (28)

1 . A sensing camera certification system, comprising:

a sensing camera;

at least one light source proximate to the sensing camera, capable of at least partially irradiating a field of view (FoV) of the sensing camera;

at least one processing system comprising a processor for executing non-transitory computing code stored in at least one computing memory, and wherein execution of the computing code by the processor comprises the steps of:

actuating the at least one light source at a predetermined time and for a predetermined duration;

monitoring data from the sensing camera for confirmation of the actuating; and

calculating at least one of the latency, throughput, and reactivity of the sensing camera based on the monitoring.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the calculating further comprises at least one of:

comparing an alteration of some pixels versus others in the data; and

comparing the data of the sensing camera to second data of a second sensor.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein at least the actuating, monitoring and calculating vary dependently upon at least one of a type of the sensing camera, a type of the light source type, a distance between the light source and the sensing camera, a use context of the system, and a use environment of the system.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the actuating comprises a choice of a frequency, a power, or a manual override of the light source.

5 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising confirming proper operation of the sensing camera based on the monitoring.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the proper operation comprises minimization of the latency.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring comprises reading time-stamped pixels of the FoV of the sensing camera.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the light source comprises one selected from the group consisting of an infrared (IR) LED, a white LED, and a colored LED.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the light source is an IR LED operating at 850 nm, consists of GaAlAs, and is side emitting.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensing camera comprises a depth camera.

11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the depth camera comprises a 3D depth camera.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the light source is preliminarily aligned.

13 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensing camera is a structured light camera.

14 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the light source further comprises a plurality of reflectors to direct light into the FoV.

15 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the light source comprises a side-emitting LED source.

16 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the light source comprises a flexible printed circuit.

17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein the light source is at least partially selectable based on a population of resistors on the flexible printed circuit.

18 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is deployed on an autonomous robot and configured to at least partially navigate the autonomous robot.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the navigating comprises avoiding obstacles revealed by the monitoring.

20 . The system of claim 19 , wherein the obstacles comprises dynamic obstacles.

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