Information collecting apparatus, information collecting system and information collecting method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi TOMIYAMA
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Abstract
In one embodiment, an information collecting apparatus has a sensor, an arm, an arm drive mechanism, and a processor. The processor controls the arm drive mechanism to make the arm operate, and thereby makes the sensor move in the vicinity of an article arranged in a shelf. The processor acquires information indicating a state of the article to be measured by the sensor.
Claims10
An information collecting apparatus which collects information of an article arranged in a shelf, comprising:
- a sensor which measures a state of the article arranged in the shelf;
- an arm which supports the sensor;
- an arm drive mechanism which makes the arm operate;
- and
- a processor which controls the arm drive mechanism to make the arm operate, and thereby makes the sensor move in the vicinity of the article arranged in the shelf, and
- acquires information indicating the state of the article to be measured by the sensor.
An information collecting system, comprising:
- an information collecting apparatus which collects information of an article arranged in a shelf;
- and
- a host apparatus which processes the information of the article which have been collected by the information collecting apparatus;
- the information collecting apparatus having
- a sensor which measures a state of the article arranged in the shelf,
- an arm which supports the sensor,
- an arm drive mechanism which makes the arm operate,
- a communication interface which communicates with the host apparatus, and
- a processor which
- controls the arm drive mechanism to make the arm operate, and thereby makes the sensor move in the vicinity of the article arranged in the shelf,
- acquires information indicating the state of the article to be measured by the sensor, and
- transmits the acquired information indicating the state of the article to the host apparatus via the communication interface.
An information collecting method of an information collecting apparatus which collects information of an article arranged in a shelf, comprising:
- making an arm operate, the arm supporting a sensor which measures a state of the article arranged in the shelf;
- making the arm move to thereby make the sensor move in the vicinity of the article arranged in the shelf;
- and
- collecting information indicating the state of the article to be measured by the sensor which has been moved in the vicinity of the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.