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US 6,604,021 B2Granted
Communication robot
AssigneeAdvanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
InventorsMichita Imai, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tesuo Ono, Takeshi Maeda, Takayuki Kanda
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Abstract
A communication robot includes a speaker. By generating a sound or voice through the speaker, the human is requested to cause a robot to make a certain action. When the human makes an action to the robot, the movement of the robot head or arm assists for the action.
Claims19
A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- and
- first sound signal providing means for providing a first sound signal to said speaker such that a first sound is generated through said speaker to request for a human to make a certain action.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- first sound signal providing means for providing a first sound signal to said speaker such that a first sound is generated through said speaker to request for a human to make a certain action;
- and
- second sound signal providing means for providing a second sound signal to said speaker to generate a second sound through said speaker after the human has made the action responsive to the request sound.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- first sound signal providing means for providing a first sound signal to said speaker such that a first sound is generated through said speaker to request for a human to make a certain action;
- an eye camera provided in said head;
- determining means for determining, based upon an image from said eye camera, whether a big object is approaching or not;
- and
- third sound signal providing means for providing a third sound signal to said speaker to generate a third sound through said speaker when said determining means determines an approach of said big object.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- first sound signal providing means for providing a first sound signal to said speaker such that a first sound is generated through said speaker to request for a human to make a certain action;
- an eye camera provided in said head;
- position detecting means for detecting a position of a skin-colored part on the basis of an image from said eye camera;
- and
- eye camera displacing means for moving said eye camera such that said eye camera is aligned to the position of the skin-colored part.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said trucks, wherein said body includes a lower body and an upper body;
- a moveable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- first sound signal providing means for providing a first sound signal to said speaker such that a first sound is generated through said speaker to request a human to make a certain action;
- and
- elevation means for elevating said upper body.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- an eye camera provided in said head;
- color detecting means for detecting a particular color on the basis of an image from said eye camera;
- position detecting means for detecting a position of the particular color on the basis of the image from said the camera;
- and
- moving means for moving said truck to a position of the particular color.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a touch sensor provided on said shoulder joint and said movable arm;
- and
- head moving means for moving a head toward a direction that said touch sensor in an on-state exists by controlling said neck joint.
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A communication robot, comprising:
- a truck;
- a body provided on said truck;
- a movable arm attached on said body through a shoulder joint;
- a head attached on said body through a neck joint;
- a speaker;
- communication means for exchanging data with another communication robot;
- and
- sound signal providing means for providing a sound signal to said speaker to generate a sound informing a human of communication made by said communication means through said speaker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.