Patent ID: 9713982
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B60R,B64D,G05D,G06K,G06T,H04N,Y10S

Claim:
1. A method of determining a distance to an object by a robotic device, the method comprising: interleaving left and right images of the device surroundings to produce an interleaved video stream; evaluating the video stream to determine a distance to and a motion of an object in a visual scene associated with the surroundings visual scene, the evaluating the video stream comprising encoding the video stream using an encoder process comprising: producing an encoded frame stream resultant from the encoder process, the encoded frame stream comprising a sequence of encoded frames associated with (i) the distance to the object and (ii) the motion of the object; causing the robotic device to execute an action based at least in part on the distance; wherein: