Auto clean machine and auto clean machine control method
AssigneePixart Imaging Inc.
InventorsGuo-Zhen Wang, Ting-Yang Chang
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Abstract
An auto clean machine comprising: a height computing device; and an obstacle determining device. The height computing device is turned on to compute a height or an overhang height of an obstacle when the obstacle determining device determines the obstacle exists in a predetermined region of the auto clean machine. The height computing device does not compute the height and the overhang height when the obstacle determining device does not determine the obstacle exists in the predetermined region.
Claims16
An auto clean machine, comprising:
- a height computing device;
- and
- an obstacle determining device;
- wherein the height computing device is turned on to compute a height or an overhang height of an obstacle when the obstacle determining device determines the obstacle exists in a predetermined region of the auto clean machine;
- wherein the height computing device does not compute the height and the overhang height when the obstacle determining device does not determine the obstacle exists in the predetermined region.
An auto clean machine control method, applied to an auto clean machine comprising a height computing device and an obstacle determining device, comprising:
- determining whether an obstacle exists in a predetermined region of the auto clean machine via the obstacle determining device;
- turning on the height computing device to compute a height or an overhang height of an obstacle when the obstacle determining device determines the obstacle exists in the predetermined region;
- not computing the height and the overhang height by the height computing device when the obstacle determining device does not determine the obstacle exists in the predetermined region.
A robot cleaner, comprising:
- a horizontal line light source, configured to emit horizontal line light to a forward direction of the robot cleaner;
- a vertical line light source, configured to emit vertical line light to the forward direction;
- and
- an optical sensor, configured to sense first optical data generated by the vertical line light and to sense second optical data generated by the horizontal line light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.