Remote diagnostic device for computer-controlled apparatus
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsKenichi Ito, Cheng Liu
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Abstract
A remote diagnostic device for a computer-controlled apparatus is provided with a camera configured to pick up an image on a display screen of the computer-controlled apparatus, a diagnostic computer installed in a remote place, and a signal conversion adapter. The signal conversion adapter transmits the image picked up by the camera to the diagnostic computer through a network communication line, automatically identifies an actuator of the computer-controlled apparatus, and converts a remote control signal received from the diagnostic computer into an input/output signal for the actuator and outputs the signal to the computer-controlled apparatus.
Claims6
A remote diagnostic device for a computer-controlled apparatus, which diagnoses a fault through a network communication line from a remote place, the remote diagnostic device comprising:
- a camera constructed separately from the computer-controlled apparatus and configured to pick up an image on a display screen of the computer-controlled apparatus;
- a signal conversion adapter;
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- a diagnostic computer installed in a remote place,
- wherein the signal conversion adapter comprises:
- an image output unit configured to convert the image picked up by the camera into a digital signal and output the converted image signal to the network communication line;
- a network signal conversion unit configured to extract, from a network signal, a remote control signal input from the diagnostic computer through the network communication line;
- a control signal conversion unit configured to convert the remote control signal extracted by the network signal conversion unit into an input/output signal for an actuator of the computer-controlled apparatus;
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- a control signal switching unit configured to output the input/output signal converted by the control signal conversion unit to the computer-controlled apparatus, and
- wherein the diagnostic computer comprises:
- an image display unit configured to display the image signal received through the network communication line;
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- a remote control signal output unit configured to output, through the network communication line, the remote control signal used to operate the computer-controlled apparatus from the remote place.
A signal conversion adapter attached to a remote diagnostic device of a computer-controlled apparatus, wherein the remote diagnostic device diagnoses a fault in the computer-controlled apparatus through a network communication line by means of a diagnostic computer installed in a remote place, the signal conversion adapter comprising:
- an image output unit constructed separately from the computer-controlled apparatus and configured to convert an image on a display screen of the computer-controlled apparatus picked up by a camera into a digital signal and output the converted image signal to the network communication line,
- a network signal conversion unit configured to extract, from a network signal, a remote control signal input from the diagnostic computer through the network communication line,
- a control signal conversion unit configured to convert the remote control signal extracted by the network signal conversion unit into an input/output signal for an actuator of the computer-controlled apparatus, and
- a control signal switching unit configured to output the input/output signal converted by the control signal conversion unit to the computer-controlled apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.