公开(公告)号：US20180154273A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15888177

申请日：2018-02-05

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： SHIKI KOU ,  RYOUTA MIYAZAKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  KENTO OGAWA ,  YUJI KUNITAKE ,  SEIYA HIGUCHI

IPC: A63H33/00 ,  B25J5/00 ,  B25J19/02 ,  B25J11/00 ,  A63H33/26 ,  A63H5/00

CPC classification number: A63H33/005 ,  A63H5/00 ,  A63H11/00 ,  A63H33/26 ,  A63H2200/00 ,  B25J5/007 ,  B25J11/0005 ,  B25J11/0015 ,  B25J13/003 ,  B25J19/002 ,  B25J19/023 ,  B25J19/026 ,  H04N5/2251 ,  H04N5/23203 ,  H04N5/23219

Abstract: A robot having a spherical casing, a weight driving mechanism, and a rotating mechanism is provided. The robot further includes a control circuit that controls the weight driving mechanism and the rotating mechanism is also provided. The control circuit is configured to, when responding to an input instruction received from a user, based on a predetermined processing that requires a predetermined amount of time or more to respond to an input instruction by a user input via an input device, cause the weight driving mechanism to be rotated to where a guide path of the weight driving mechanism is positioned to be orthogonal to an advancing direction by a set of driving wheels. The control circuit is further configured to cause the weight to be reciprocally move along the guide path that is positioned orthogonal to the advancing direction, during the predetermined processing.

公开(公告)号：US20180240229A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15890997

申请日：2018-02-07

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YASUHIRO YUKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  MITSUHIRO ASO ,  TAKAYUKI HAYAMI ,  TOMOKO KAJIMOTO

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  F25D3/06 ,  F25D29/00 ,  F25D31/00 ,  C12H1/22

CPC classification number: G06T7/0004 ,  C12H1/22 ,  F25D3/06 ,  F25D3/08 ,  F25D29/00 ,  F25D29/005 ,  F25D31/007 ,  F25D2303/0831 ,  F25D2303/0832 ,  F25D2331/803 ,  F25D2331/809 ,  F25D2700/06 ,  G06T2207/10141 ,  G06T2207/30128

Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.

公开(公告)号：US20180235392A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15891009

申请日：2018-02-07

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YASUHIRO YUKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  AKIRA KATAOKA ,  RINAKO KAMEI ,  TOYOSHI KAMISAKO ,  MASANORI FUKATA

IPC: A47G23/02 ,  B65D81/18 ,  F25D31/00 ,  F25B21/02

CPC classification number: A47G23/0241 ,  B65D81/18 ,  F25B21/02 ,  F25D29/005 ,  F25D31/005 ,  F25D31/006 ,  F25D31/007 ,  F25D2303/0841 ,  F25D2327/001 ,  F25D2331/809 ,  F25D2400/40 ,  F25D2500/02 ,  F25D2700/06 ,  F25D2700/12 ,  F25D2700/16

Abstract: A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.

公开(公告)号：US20180169865A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15897646

申请日：2018-02-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： SHIKI KOU ,  RYOUTA MIYAZAKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  KENTO OGAWA ,  YUJI KUNITAKE ,  SEIYA HIGUCHI

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J5/00 ,  G06N3/00 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04R1/02 ,  G06F3/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1697 ,  A63H11/00 ,  A63H33/005 ,  A63H2200/00 ,  B25J5/00 ,  B25J9/1679 ,  B25J11/0005 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K9/00671 ,  G06N3/008 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04N5/2252 ,  H04N5/2257 ,  H04N7/185 ,  H04R1/028 ,  Y10S901/01 ,  Y10S901/46 ,  Y10S901/47

Abstract: A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.

公开(公告)号：US20200211176A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16811942

申请日：2020-03-06

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YASUHIRO YUKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  MITSUHIRO ASO ,  TAKAYUKI HAYAMI ,  TOMOKO KAJIMOTO

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  F25D3/06 ,  F25D29/00 ,  F25D31/00 ,  C12H1/22 ,  F25D3/08

Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.

公开(公告)号：US20180154513A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15888171

申请日：2018-02-05

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： SHIKI KOU ,  RYOUTA MIYAZAKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  KENTO OGAWA ,  YUJI KUNITAKE ,  SEIYA HIGUCHI

IPC: B25J5/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/00 ,  H04R1/02 ,  G10L15/22

CPC classification number: B25J5/00 ,  A63H11/00 ,  A63H33/005 ,  A63H2200/00 ,  B25J9/1697 ,  B25J11/0015 ,  B25J13/003 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  H04R1/028 ,  Y10S901/01 ,  Y10S901/47

Abstract: A robot having a spherical casing, a control circuit and a communication circuit configured to connect to an external server is provided. The robot further includes a set of wheels included in the spherical casing, which comes into contact with an inner surface of the spherical casing and configured to rotate the spherical casing when the driving wheels are driven. The control circuit is configured to, when determining that performing a predetermined processing in response to an input instruction received from a user requires a predetermined amount of time or more, causes each of the set of driving wheels to rotate in opposite directions from each other to rotate the spherical casing during the predetermined processing. When the predetermined processing is complete and a response is to be output, the control circuit stops rotation of the spherical casing with the set of wheels facing toward the user.