摘要:
A tele-inventory system for inventorying various kinds of commodities in a shop by an operator from a remote management apparatus installed remotely from the shop.
摘要:
A remotely controlled robot comprises a unit storing the layout plan of a building, a unit receiving a position remotely designated in the layout plan from a remote location and a unit controlling the travel of the robot to the designated position. A self-position identification method is implemented by a robot with a camera whose shooting direction can be changed. The robot takes in advance a panoramic picture of a room where the robot may travel, generates a reference picture by extracting a plurality of block pictures from the panoramic picture and identifies a room where the robot is located, by applying correlation and DP matching, using both a picture taken in the room where the robot is located and the reference picture.
摘要:
An automotive entertainment assembly is provided including a vehicle roof and a headliner. The headliner provides a substantially uniform internal surface. A mounting frame assembly is positioned between the headliner and the vehicle roof. A circuit board is mounted to the mounting frame assembly. A multi-media display assembly is rotatably mounted to the mounting frame assembly and includes an upper panel edge, a lower panel edge, a pair of panel side edges. The display assembly is rotatable between a stored position and a deployed position. The multi-media display assembly includes a rear display panel surface substantially flush with the uniform internal surface when in the stored position A flexible cable provides communication between the circuit board and the multi-media display assembly.
摘要:
A local region image tracking apparatus continuously tracks an arbitrary local region within a search image that is described by search image data by comparing the search image data to be subjected to a tracking process out of input image data picked up by image pickup means with reference image data related to the arbitrary local region. The local region image tracking apparatus includes an image data bus transferring the input image data from the image pickup means, and a plurality of correlation tracking processors coupled in parallel to the image data bus and respectively capable of independently carrying out the tracking process with respect to at least one search image, where the tracking process with respect to one or a plurality of search images is distributively carried out by the correlation tracking processors.
摘要:
A system for and a method of recognizing and tracking a target mark with a video camera is disclosed. The system includes a target mark (10) disposed on an object (1) and composed of a black circle and a white triangle mounted centrally on the black circle and three-dimensionally shifted from the black circle, a video camera (20) for imaging the target mark (10), a robot (30) supporting the video camera (20) and movable in directions with six degrees of freedom, an image processor (40) for processing image data of the target mark which is produced by the video camera (20), a shift calculating unit (50) for detecting a shift of the target mark (10) from projected histogram information of the target mark (10) which is produced by the image processor (40), and a robot controller (60) for controlling movement of the robot depending on the shift to enable the video camera (20) to track the target mark (10). The system is capable of tracking the target mark (20) attached to the object (1) on a real-time basis. Mark recognizing apparatus capable of accurately recognizing target marks of other shapes is also disclosed.
摘要:
A path planning unit plans a travel path to a destination based on an estimated current travel position and outputs a travel command to a travel control unit to perform travel control so as to follow the travel path. A travel position prediction unit accumulates a travel distance, which is detected by a wheel turning-angle sensor, to the estimated current travel position so as to predict the current travel position. A predictive image generating unit generates a plurality of predictive edge images which are composed of edge information and captured when a camera is virtually disposed at the predicted current travel position and candidate positions in the vicinity of it based on layout information of the environment, and an edge image generating unit generates an actual edge image from the actual image captured by the camera. A position estimation unit compares the edge image with the plurality of predictive edge images, estimates the candidate position of the predictive edge image at which the degree of similarity is the maximum, and updates the travel position of the path planning unit and the travel position prediction unit.
摘要:
A robot for freely moving about in an environment where there is an obstacle. The robot includes a communication section transmitting by wireless an image taken by a camera to a base station, and via the base station to a communication terminal making a radio communication with the base station, and receiving by wireless movement target position information specified on the image by an operation of the communication terminal via the base station, and a motion control section that moves the robot up to a movement target position specified by the movement target position information acquired in the communication section.
摘要:
The present invention aims to provide a robot having the structure suitable for freely moving about in the environment where there is an obstacle within the house, for example. The robot includes a communication section transmitting by wireless an image taken by the camera to a base station, and via the base station to a communication terminal making the radio communication with the base station, and receiving by wireless the movement target position information specified on the image by an operation of the communication terminal via the base station, and a motion control section that moves the robot up to a movement target position specified by the movement target position information acquired in the communication section.
摘要:
A local region image tracking apparatus continuously tracks an arbitrary local region within a search image which is described by search image data by comparing the search image data and reference image data related to the arbitrary local region having a size of am pixels by bn pixels with respect to input image data, where the search image has a size larger than am pixels by bn pixels, and a, b, m and n are natural numbers. The local region image tracking apparatus includes correlation computing circuit for computing a correlation between reference image data related to a reference image having a size of m pixels by n pixels and the search image data a plurality of times while moving a position of the reference image with respect to the search image, and for outputting correlation values respectively indicating a computed correlation, and a correlation value accumulating circuit for accumulating the correlation values output from the correlation computing circuit, and for outputting a correlation value indicative of a correlation between the search image data and reference image data related to an equivalent of a reference image having a size of am pixels by bn pixels.
摘要:
A system for and a method of recognizing and tracking a target mark with a video camera is disclosed. The system includes a target mark (10) disposed on an object (1) and composed of a black circle and a white triangle mounted centrally on the black circle and three-dimensionally shifted from the black circle, a video camera (20) for imaging the target mark (10), a robot (30) supporting the video camera (20) and movable in directions with six degrees of freedom, an image processor (40) for processing image data of the target mark which is produced by the video camera (20), a shift calculating unit (50) for detecting a shift of the target mark (10) from projected histogram information of the target mark (10) which is produced by the image processor (40), and a robot controller (60) for controlling movement of the robot depending on the shift to enable the video camera (20) to track the target mark (10). The system is capable of tracking the target mark ( 20) attached to the object (1) on a real-time basis. Mark recognizing apparatus capable of accurately recognizing target marks of other shapes is also disclosed.