Authoring system and authoring method, and storage medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsReizo Konno, Satoko Ogure
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Abstract
An action editing window (200) is formed as a time table of a two-dimensional time line style, made up by a horizontal time axis and a vertical channel. Within the time line table, respective constituent elements of an action of a robot, such as a time ruler (201), a keyframe channel (202), a motion channel (203), a sound channel (204) or an LED operation channel (205), are chronologically displayed. A user is able to edit as synchronization between the respective components of the action is checked. This supports the creation and the editing of a series of commands and data stating a pattern of robot movements.
Claims71
An authoring system for supporting the creation and editing of an action to be performed by a multi-joint robot, said action represented by a combination of a plurality of chronological data, the system comprising:
- a user inputting unit for inputting commands or data from a user;
- a user presenting unit for presenting an editing area in which chronological data making up the action are arrayed chronologically along the time axis;
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- a chronological data editing unit provided for each chronological data making up the action, said chronological data editing unit creating or editing relevant chronological data based on a user input through said user presenting unit.
An authoring method for supporting the creation and editing of an action to be performed by a multi-joint robot, said action comprised of a combination of a plurality of chronological data, said method comprising:
- a user presenting step of presenting an editing area in which the chronological data making up the action are arrayed chronologically along the time axis;
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- a chronological data editing step for creating or editing relevant chronological data based on a user input through the editing area, provided for each chronological data making up the action, via said user presenting step.
A recording medium having physically stored thereon, in a computer-readable form, computer software for executing processing for supporting the creation and editing of an action to be performed by a multi-joint robot, said action represented by a combination of plural chronological data, on a computer system, said computer software comprising:
- a user presenting step of presenting an editing area in which chronological data making up the action are arrayed chronologically along the time axis;
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- a chronological data editing step for creating or editing relevant chronological data based on a user input through an editing area by said user presenting step, said editing area being provided for each chronological data making up the action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.