Control device, control method, computer program product, and robot control system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKenta Kawamoto, Yoshiaki Iwai, Satoru Shimizu
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Abstract
A control system, method and computer program product cooperate to assist control for an autonomous robot. The system includes a communications interface that exchanges information with the autonomous robot. A user interface displays a scene of a location in which the autonomous robot is positioned, and also receives an indication of a user selection of a user selected area within the scene. The communications interface transmits an indication of said user selected area to the autonomous robot for further processing of the area by said autonomous robot.
Claims10
A control apparatus for a movable apparatus that includes an imaging unit and a drive unit, the control apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- generate a specific information used for specifying a search range in which the movable apparatus searches for a predetermined object, the search range having been designated as a partial region of a captured image obtained by the imaging unit, wherein the partial region of the captured image including the predetermined object and another object in a region surrounding the predetermined object, and three-dimensional position information of the another object was previously stored in a storage unit of the movable apparatus;
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- transmit the specific information to the movable apparatus to read the three-dimensional position information of the another object from the storage unit and to calculate the search range for searching the predetermined object based on the stored three-dimensional position information of the another object.
A control method for a movable apparatus that includes an imaging unit and a drive unit, the control method comprising:
- generating a specific information used for specifying a search range in which the movable apparatus searches for a predetermined object, the search range having been designated as a partial region on a captured image obtained by the imaging unit, wherein the partial region of the captured image including the predetermined object and another object in a region surrounding the predetermined object, and three-dimensional position information of the another object was previously stored in a storage unit of the movable apparatus;
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- transmitting the specific information to the movable apparatus to read the three-dimensional position information of the another object from the storage unit and to calculate the search range for searching the predetermined object based on the stored three-dimensional position information of the another object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.