(57) ABSTRACT A control method may be applied to a Surgical robot system including a
slave robot having a robot arm to which a main Surgical tool and an auxiliary Surgical tool …

Related US Application Data An industrial safety system is provided that integrates optical
safety monitoring with machine control. The safety system includes an imaging sensor …

Apparatus and methods for detecting and utilizing saliency in digital images. In one
implementation, salient objects may be detected based on analysis of pixel characteristics …

A method of detecting a supporting surface region in an image captured by a camera is
disclosed. An object in the image is detected. One or more regions of the image in which a …

Apparatus and methods for detecting and utilizing saliency in digital images. In one
implementation, salient objects may be detected based on analysis of pixel characteristics …

Data streams from multiple image sensors may be combined in order to form, for example,
an interleaved video stream. The video stream may be encoded using a motion estimation …

Data streams from multiple image sensors may be combined in order to form, for example,
an interleaved video stream, which can be used to determine distance to an object. The …

A method for evaluating a print quality of a printed document that is printed by a printer is
provided. The printer comprises a pre-print image scanner, a post-print image scanner, and …

(57) ABSTRACT A data processing apparatus may use a video encoder in order to extract
motion information from streaming video in real time. Output of the video encoder may be …

An optical object detection apparatus and associated methods. The apparatus may
comprise a lens (eg, fixed-focal length wide aperture lens) and an image sensor. The fixed …