Control device, control method, computer program product, and robot control system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKenta Kawamoto, Yoshiaki Iwai, Satoru Shimizu
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Abstract
A control system, method and computer program product cooperate to assist control for an autonomous robot. The system includes a communications interface that exchanges information with the autonomous robot (22). A user interface displays a scene of location in which the autonomous robot (22) is positioned, and also receives an indication of a user selection of a user selected area within the scene. The communications interface transmits an indication of said user selected area to the autonomous robot (22) for further processing of the area by said autonomous robot (22).
Claims21
A control system for an autonomous robot, comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- exchange information with the autonomous robot;
- control display of a scene of a location in which the autonomous robot is positioned, receive an indication of a user selection of a searching area to be searched by the autonomous robot within said scene, and receive as input a category of a target object within the searching area, wherein
- said circuitry transmits an indication of said searching area and the category of the target object to said autonomous robot to control the autonomous robot to identify within said searching area one or more candidate target objects in the category and assign one of at least three likelihood degrees to each candidate target object, the likelihood degrees indicating a likelihood that a respective candidate target object is a target object in the category.
A display control method for an autonomous robot, comprising:
- exchanging information with the autonomous robot via a communications interface;
- controlling display of a scene of a location in which the autonomous robot is positioned;
- receiving via a user interface an indication of a user selection of a searching area to be searched by the autonomous robot within said scene and a category of a target object within the searching area;
- and
- forming with a processing circuit and transmitting an indication of said searching area and the category of the target object to said autonomous robot to control the autonomous robot to identify within said searching area one or more candidate target objects in the category and assign one of at least three likelihood degrees to each candidate target object, the likelihood degrees indicating a likelihood that a respective candidate target object is a target object in the category.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein that when executed by a processing circuit perform a display control method for an autonomous robot, comprising:
- exchanging information with the autonomous robot via a communications interface;
- controlling display of a scene of a location in which the autonomous robot is positioned;
- receiving via a user interface an indication of a user selection of a searching area to be searched by the autonomous robot within said scene and a category of a target object within the searching area;
- and
- forming with the processing circuit and transmitting an indication of said searching area and the category of the target object to said autonomous robot to control the autonomous robot to identify within said searching area one or more candidate target objects in the category and assign one of at least three likelihood degrees to each candidate target object, the likelihood degrees indicating a likelihood that a respective candidate target object is a target object in the category.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.