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US 2010/0092032 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus to facilitate operations in image based systems
AssigneeRoboticVISIONTech LLC
InventorRemus Boca
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Abstract
Vision based systems may select actions based on analysis of images to redistribute objects. Actions may include action type, action axis and/or action direction. Analysis may determine whether an object is accessible by a robot, whether an upper surface of a collection of objects meet a defined criteria and/or whether clusters of objects preclude access.
Claims27
A method of operating an image based system, the method comprising:
- acquiring an image of an area in which a plurality of objects may reside;
- computationally analyzing the acquired image for a respective representation of any of the objects;
- based on the computational analysis of the acquired image, computationally determining a preferred action from a plurality of different possible non-object picking actions that cause movement of the objects in the area, if any, without physically picking any of the objects;
- and
- communicatively transmitting at least one signal to cause the determined preferred action to occur.
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An image based system, comprising:
- at least one image acquisition device that acquires an image of an area in which a plurality of objects may reside;
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one processor-readable storage medium that stores processor executable instructions that cause the processor to:
- analyze the acquired image for a respective representation of any of the objects;
- based on the analysis of the acquired image, determine a preferred action from a plurality of different possible non-object picking actions that cause movement of the objects in the area, if any, without physically picking any of the objects;
- and
- transmit at least one signal to cause the determined preferred action to occur.
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A method of operating an image based system, the method comprising:
- repeatedly acquiring images of an area in which a number of objects may reside;
- computationally identifying one or more clusters of the objects in the acquired image;
- computationally selecting an action to disperse the one or more clusters of the objects from a plurality of different possible actions without physically removing any of the objects from the area, based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified one or more clusters;
- and
- providing a signal that causes the selected action.
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An image based system, comprising:
- at least one image acquisition device that repeatedly acquires images of an area in which a plurality of objects may reside;
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one processor-readable storage medium that stores processor executable instructions that cause the processor to:
- identify one or more clusters of the objects in the acquired image;
- select an action to disperse the one or more clusters of the objects from a plurality of different possible actions that do not physically remove any of the objects from the area, based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified one or more clusters;
- and
- provide a signal that causes the selected action.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.