Mobile unit control device and mobile unit
AssigneeNidec Corporation
InventorsOusmane Monzon Sangare, Masahiro Akamatsu, Masayuki Otani
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Abstract
A mobile unit control device includes an imaging unit, an identification unit, and a control unit. When installed on a mobile unit, the imaging unit captures at least a portion of the surroundings of the mobile unit to obtain an image thereof. When the image captured by the imaging unit includes a figure of a person, the identification unit determines a trunk of the person in the figure of the person as a representative point. The control unit controls a movement of the mobile unit on the basis of the position of the representative point determined by the identification unit in the image.
Claims8
A mobile unit control device comprising:
- an imaging unit that, when installed on a mobile unit, captures at least a portion of surroundings of the mobile unit to obtain an image thereof;
- an identification unit that, when the image captured by the imaging unit includes a figure of a person, determines a trunk of the person in the figure of the person as a representative point;
- and
- a control unit that controls a movement of the mobile unit on a basis of a position of the representative point determined by the identification unit in the image;
- wherein
- the control unit outputs a control to move the mobile unit backwards when the identification unit does not determine the representative point in the image captured by the imaging unit.
A mobile unit, comprising:
- a mobile unit control device, including:
- an imaging unit that, when installed on a mobile unit, captures at least a portion of surroundings of the mobile unit to obtain an image thereof;
- an identification unit that, when the image captured by the imaging unit includes a figure of a person, determines a trunk of the person in the figure of the person as a representative point;
- and
- a control unit that controls a movement of the mobile unit on a basis of a position of the representative point determined by the identification unit in the image;
- wherein
- the mobile unit is structured to move in an arbitrary direction along a ground;
- and
- the control unit outputs a control to move the mobile unit backwards when the identification unit does not determine the representative point in the image captured by the imaging unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.