Work machine, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsSusumu AIZAWA, Yoshihisa KIYOTA, Shunsuke OTSUKI
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Abstract
A work machine includes a sensor configured to acquire information relating to a status of a surrounding area of the work machine; a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to an external apparatus, the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, which may be acquired by the sensor or generated based on the information acquired by the sensor; and an activating unit configured to activate a monitoring unit including at least the sensor and the transmitting unit, while the work machine is stopped.
Claims17
A work machine comprising:
- a sensor configured to acquire information relating to a status of a surrounding area of the work machine;
- a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to an external apparatus, the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, which is acquired by the sensor or generated based on the information acquired by the sensor;
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- an activating unit configured to activate a monitoring unit including at least the sensor and the transmitting unit, while the work machine is stopped.
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a work machine including a monitoring unit configured to acquire information relating to a status of a surrounding area of the work machine and to transmit the information outside the work machine, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the work machine, an instruction for requesting the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, in response to a predetermined operation from a user;
- a first acquiring unit configured to acquire the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, transmitted from the work machine in response to the instruction;
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- a first reporting unit configured to report, to the user, the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine acquired by the first acquiring unit.
An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a work machine including a monitoring unit configured to acquire information relating to a status of a surrounding area of the work machine and to transmit the information outside the work machine, the information processing method comprising:
- transmitting, to the work machine, an instruction for requesting the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, in response to a predetermined operation from a user;
- acquiring the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine, transmitted from the work machine in response to the instruction;
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- reporting, to the user, the information relating to the status of the surrounding area of the work machine that has been acquired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.