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公开(公告)号:US11221629B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-11
申请号:US16346718
申请日:2017-06-07
发明人: Kota Watanabe , Hirokazu Izawa , Yuuki Marutani
摘要: A vacuum cleaner that can achieve efficient and accurate autonomous traveling. An obstacle detection part detects an object corresponding to an obstacle outside a main casing. A map generation part generates a map indicating information on an area having been traveled by the main casing, based on detection of the object by the obstacle detection part and a self-position estimated by a self-position estimation part during traveling of the main casing. A controller controls an operation of a driving wheel to make the main casing autonomously travel. The controller includes a traveling mode for controlling the operation of the driving wheel so as to make the main casing autonomously travel along a traveling route set based on the map. The controller determines whether or not to change the traveling route for next time based on the obstacle detected by the obstacle detection part during the traveling mode.
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公开(公告)号:US10694154B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-23
申请号:US16267423
申请日:2019-02-05
发明人: Hirokazu Izawa , Kazuhiro Furuta , Yuuki Marutani , Kota Watanabe
IPC分类号: H04N5/225 , F25D23/00 , H04N7/18 , G03B17/02 , G03B17/08 , F25D23/04 , H04N5/232 , H04N5/235 , G03B29/00 , F25D27/00 , F25D29/00 , F25D23/02 , F25D23/12
摘要: A camera device for use in a storage unit according to an embodiment includes a case installable to an opening end side of a door of the storage unit; an image capturing element stored inside the case and configured to capture an image inside the storage unit; and a battery stored inside the case. The battery is disposed in a lower portion of the case. A center of gravity of the camera device is different from the center.
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公开(公告)号:US10314452B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-11
申请号:US15531316
申请日:2015-12-24
发明人: Hirokazu Izawa , Yuuki Marutani , Kota Watanabe , Kazuhiro Furuta
摘要: A vacuum cleaner includes a main casing, driving wheels, a control unit, a cleaning unit, cameras, and a depth calculation part. The driving wheels enable the main casing to travel. The control unit controls drive of the driving wheels to make the main casing autonomously travel. The cleaning unit cleans a floor surface. The cameras are disposed apart from each other in the main casing to pick up images on a traveling-direction side of the main casing with their fields of view overlapping with each other. The depth calculation part calculates a depth of an object distanced from the cameras based on images picked up by the cameras. The vacuum cleaner has improved obstacle detection precision.
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公开(公告)号:US10917616B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-09
申请号:US16414197
申请日:2019-05-16
发明人: Kota Watanabe , Hirokazu Izawa , Kazuhiro Furuta , Yuuki Marutani
摘要: In one embodiment, an image capturing system is configured so that a device for capturing images is communicable with an external device through a communication unit. The image capturing system is provided with an operating unit configured to make settings pertaining to image capturing, an image capturing device serving as the device for capturing images and being configured to produce image data by periodically capturing images based on the settings made to the operating unit and a display unit configured to produce a display output based on the image data.
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公开(公告)号:US10389980B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-20
申请号:US15053573
申请日:2016-02-25
发明人: Hirokazu Izawa , Kazuhiro Furuta , Yuuki Marutani , Kota Watanabe , Yuki Takahashi , Ryo Kawada
摘要: One embodiment of a camera system is provided with a camera device serving as an image capturing unit; a communication unit configured to transmit image information captured by the camera device to an external device; and a display terminal configured to display image information captured by the camera device, the display terminal being configured to display at least either of image information captured by the camera device according to prescribed conditions and image information captured according to user instructions.
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公开(公告)号:US10362275B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-23
申请号:US15053536
申请日:2016-02-25
发明人: Kota Watanabe , Hirokazu Izawa , Kazuhiro Furuta , Yuuki Marutani
摘要: In one embodiment, an image capturing system is configured so that a device for capturing images is communicable with an external device through a communication unit. The image capturing system is provided with an operating unit configured to make settings pertaining to image capturing, an image capturing device serving as the device for capturing images and being configured to produce image data by periodically capturing images based on the settings made to the operating unit and a display unit configured to produce a display output based on the image data.
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公开(公告)号:US10932635B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US15768360
申请日:2016-10-12
发明人: Hirokazu Izawa , Yuuki Marutani , Kota Watanabe , Kazuhiro Furuta
摘要: A vacuum cleaner having improved obstacle detection precision. The vacuum cleaner includes a main casing, driving wheels, control unit, cameras, an image generation part, and a discrimination part. The driving wheels enable the main casing to travel. The control unit controls drive of the driving wheels to make the main casing autonomously travel. The cameras are disposed apart from each other in the main casing to pick up images on a traveling-direction side of the main casing. The image generation part generates a distance image of an object positioned on the traveling-direction side based on the images picked up by the cameras. The discrimination part discriminates whether or not the picked-up object is an obstacle based on the distance image generated by the image generation part.
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公开(公告)号:US10194081B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US14997140
申请日:2016-01-15
发明人: Kota Watanabe , Hirokazu Izawa , Kazuhiro Furuta , Yuuki Murutani
摘要: A camera device of one embodiment is provided with an image capturing unit configured to capture image of a room interior; a receiving unit configured to receive an image capturing instruction for capturing image of the room interior by way of a home appliance; and a camera-side controller being configured to standby in a low-power mode consuming relatively less electric power compared to a normal-operation mode and being configured to capture image of the room interior through the image capturing unit by returning to the normal-operation mode when the receiving unit receives the image capturing instruction.
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公开(公告)号:US10018402B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-10
申请号:US14776729
申请日:2014-03-11
发明人: Katsushi Sumihiro , Yuuki Marutani , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hirokazu Izawa , Kota Watanabe , Ryo Kawada
CPC分类号: F25D23/028 , F25D11/00 , F25D23/04 , F25D23/12 , F25D27/00
摘要: A refrigerator (1) is provided with an image capturing camera 18 (image capturing unit) configured to capture an image of an interior of a storage chamber (such as a refrigeration chamber 3); a communication portion (52) (communication unit) configured to transmit image of the interior of the storage chamber captured by the image capturing camera (18) to an exterior device; wherein the image capturing unit is stored in a recess provided in the interior of the storage chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US11143450B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US15974952
申请日:2018-05-09
发明人: Katsushi Sumihiro , Yuuki Marutani , Kazuhiro Furuta , Hirokazu Izawa , Kota Watanabe , Ryo Kawada
摘要: A refrigerator (1) is provided with an image capturing camera 18 (image capturing unit) configured to capture an image of an interior of a storage chamber (such as a refrigeration chamber 3); a communication portion (52) (communication unit) configured to transmit image of the interior of the storage chamber captured by the image capturing camera (18) to an exterior device; wherein the image capturing unit is stored in a recess provided in the interior of the storage chamber.
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