Robot device, method of controlling robot device, computer program, and program storage medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTsutomu Sawada
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Abstract
Provided is an excellent robot device capable of preferably detecting difference between dirt and a scratch on a lens of a camera and difference between dirt and a scratch on a hand. A robot device detects a site in which there is the dirt or the scratch using an image of the hand taken by a camera as a reference image. Further, this determines whether the detected dirt or scratch is due to the lens of the camera or the hand by moving the hand. The robot device performs cleaning work assuming that the dirt is detected, and then this detects the difference between the dirt and the scratch depending on whether the dirt is removed.
Claims20
An imaging device, comprising:
- an image capturing device configured to capture a first image;
- and
- circuitry configured to
- determine whether there is a foreign object of the image capturing device by comparing the first image with a second image different from the first image;
- and
- output information indicating there is the foreign object in response to determining that there is the foreign object of the image capturing device, the information being used to control performance of a cleaning work of the image capturing device.
An imaging method, comprising:
- capturing, using an image capturing device, a first image;
- determining, using circuitry, whether there is a foreign object of the image capturing device by comparing the first image with a second image different from the first image;
- and
- outputting information indicating there is the foreign object in response to determining that there is the foreign object of the image capturing device, the information being used to control performance of a cleaning work of the image capturing device.
A non-transitory computer readable medium including executable instructions, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to execute an imaging method, the method comprising:
- capturing, using an image capturing device, a first image;
- determining whether there is a foreign object of the image capturing device by comparing the first image with a second image different from the first image;
- and
- outputting information indicating there is the foreign object in response to determining that there is the foreign object of the image capturing device, the information being used to control performance of a cleaning work of the image capturing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.