G01C 11/06
By comparison of two or more pictures of the same area
Official title: by comparison of two or more pictures of the same area
G01C11/06 (By comparison of two or more pictures of the same area) appears on 692 US grants and 698 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 692
- Published applications
- 698
- Assignees
- 417
- Inventors
- 1,436
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
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- Distance measurement method and device, and robot and storage medium4 Aug 2026US 12,700,116 B2Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd.
- Navigation device for an optical system for aiming and observing a scene, and method for determining an attitude for such an optical system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309461 A1Safran Electronics & Defense
- Machine to Machine Targeting Maintaining Positive Identification1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299620 A1AeroVironment, Inc.
- Location-specific image collection10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267911 A1Grabtaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.
- Optical data processing device, optical data processing method, and optical data processing program6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227185 A1Topcon Corporation
- Systems and methods for storing, interrogating and/or refining temporal spatial information6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228912 A1Visionary Machines Pty Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for monitoring condition outside vehicle using imaged picture by a plurality of television cameras649US 5,410,346 AFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Distance detection system for vehicles610US 5,307,136 AFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Data processing system and method591US 6,215,898 B1Interval Research Corporation · 2001
- Method of matching stereo images and method of measuring disparity between these image477US 5,867,591 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Methods and apparatus for using image data to determine camera location and orientation314US 5,699,444 ASynthonics, Inc. · 1997