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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106828 | MOBILE ROBOT AND SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAP BUILDING METHOD THEREOF A simultaneous localization and map building method of a mobile robot including an omni-directional camera. The method includes acquiring an omni-directional image from the omni-directional camera, dividing the obtained omni-directional image into upper and lower images... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106829 | ROBOT CLEANER AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME A robot cleaner and a method for controlling the same are provided. A region to be cleaned may be divided into a plurality of sectors based on detection data collected by a detecting device, and a partial map for each sector may be generated. A full map of the cleaning ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083982 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GOVERNING A SPEED OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE A method of adjusting a speed of a mobile machine is provided. Image data of a location is collected where currently generated sensor data and previously generated sensor data indicate a discontinuity in sensor data. The image data is analyzed to determine if a non-moti... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120051595 | MOBILE ROBOT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME Disclosed are a mobile robot and a controlling method of the same. The mobile robot is capable of reducing a position recognition error and performing a precise position recognition even in the occurrence of a change of external illumination, through geometric constrain... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120020547 | Methods of Locating and Tracking Robotic Instruments in Robotic Surgical Systems In one embodiment of the invention, a method is disclosed to locate a robotic instrument in the field of view of a camera. The method includes capturing sequential images in a field of view of a camera. The sequential images are correlated between successive views. The ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110320042 | METHODS AND PROCESSES TO AGGREGATE MULTIPLE IMAGE FEEDS AND DYNAMICALLY SELECT COMMAND REFERENCE FRAMES Methods and systems to improve operator control of mobile robots are disclosed. The invention comprises in various embodiments the aggregation of multiple image feeds to improve operator situational awareness and the dynamic selection of command reference frames to impr... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311127 | MOTION SPACE PRESENTATION DEVICE AND MOTION SPACE PRESENTATION METHOD A motion space presentation device includes: a work area generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional region in which the movable robot operates; an image capture unit configured to capture a real image; a position and posture detection unit configured to ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110280472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST CALIBRATION BETWEEN A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM AND A ROBOT A system and method for robustly calibrating a vision system and a robot is provided. The system and method enables a plurality of cameras to be calibrated into a robot base coordinate system to enable a machine vision/robot control system to accurately identify the loc... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110268349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD BUILDING A MAP A system building a map while an image sensor is moving, the system including the image sensor configured to capture images while the image sensor moves relative to one or more different locations, a sub-map building unit configured to recognize a relative location for ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110194755 | Apparatus and method with traveling path planning An apparatus and method with traveling path planning of a mobile robot within a space along an inherent direction of the space. The apparatus may include a pattern extracting unit, a pattern direction extracting unit, and a path generating unit. The pattern extracting u... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110169923 | Flow Separation for Stereo Visual Odometry In a method for determining a translation and a rotation of a platform, at least a first frame and a previous frame are generated. Points are matched between images generated by two stereoscopic sensors. Points are matched to corresponding stereo feature matches between... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110157577 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS MATERIALS AND MATERIAL FLOWS A method and system for alignment of a tool to a workpiece in a continuous or discontinuous material flow are disclosed. The workpiece may be a portion of a web of material. An imaging system captures first and second images of the workpiece at first and second occasion... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150319 | Method for Determining 3D Poses Using Points and Lines A three-dimensional (3D) pose of a 3D object in an environment is determined by extracting features from an image acquired of the environment by a camera. The features are matched to a 3D model of the environment to determine correspondences. A camera reference frame of... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141251 | Method and System for Segmenting Moving Objects from Images Using Foreground Extraction A set of images is acquired of a scene by a camera. The scene includes a moving object, and a relative difference of a motion of the camera and a motion of the object is substantially zero. Statistical properties of pixels in the images are determined, and a statistical... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135189 | SWARM INTELLIGENCE-BASED MOBILE ROBOT, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND SURVEILLANCE ROBOT SYSTEM A plurality of swarm intelligence-based mobile robots, each having multiple legs and multiple joints, the mobile robot includes: an environment recognition sensor for collecting sensed data about the surrounding environment of the mobile robot; a communication unit for ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110075915 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS OF ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, method and computer-readable medium of a robot which efficiently manage a moving image acquired by the robot and reinforce security to prevent image leakage. In order to restore an object region within an original image photog... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074923 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OF NETWORK-BASED ROBOT AND METHOD THEREOF Disclosed herein is a system which transmits an image using a lossless compression method in a robot to provide a service over a network and a method thereof. The network-based robot separates an image acquired by a stereo camera into various image formats and transmits... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110071675 | VISUAL PERCEPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HUMANOID ROBOT A robotic system includes a humanoid robot with robotic joints each moveable using an actuator(s), and a distributed controller for controlling the movement of each of the robotic joints. The controller includes a visual perception module (VPM) for visually identifying ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110001813 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, ROBOT SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD USING THE SAME Provided is a gesture recognition apparatus. The gesture recognition apparatus includes a human detection unit, a gesture region setting region, an arm detection unit and a gesture determination unit. The human detection unit detects a face region of a user from an inpu... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328451 | POSITION MEASURING SYSTEM, PROCESSING DEVICE FOR POSITION MEASUREMENT, PROCESSING METHOD FOR POSITION MEASUREMENT, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A position measuring system includes a marker set having three or more basic markers that are known in positional relation and attached to a second area of an object which contains a first area having an acting portion and the second area continuous with the first area,... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100296723 | Methods, Devices, and Systems Useful in Registration Methods, devices, and systems for use in accomplishing registration of a patient to a robot to facilitate image guided surgical procedures, such as stereotactic procedures.... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100284604 | EFFICIENT IMAGE MATCHING A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a first image and a symmetry signature generator component that generates a first global symmetry signature for the image, wherein the global symmetry signature is representative of symmetry existent ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100286827 | ROBOT WITH VISION-BASED 3D SHAPE RECOGNITION The invention relates to a method for processing video signals from a video sensor, in order to extract 3d shape information about objects represented in the video signals, the method comprising the following steps:
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| 20100272347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT BEAM CALIBRATION A method for performing DA (Dynamic Alignment) beam calibration in a plasma processing system is provided. The method including acquiring a positional difference, the positional difference is acquired using an optical imaging approach. The optical imaging approach compr... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100172571 | Robot and control method thereof Disclosed herein are a feature point used to localize an image-based robot and build a map of the robot and a method of extracting and matching an image patch of a three-dimensional (3D) image, which is used as the feature point. It is possible to extract the image patc... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100135572 | ROBOT MOTION DATA GENERATION METHOD AND A GENERATION APPARATUS USING IMAGE DATA The present invention relates to a robot motion data generation method and a generation apparatus using image data, and more specifically to a robot action data generation method for perceiving motion of an object from a consecutive first image frame and a second image ... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100119146 | ROBOT SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT A robot system includes a robot having a movable section, an image capture unit provided on the movable section, an output unit that allows the image capture unit to capture a target object and a reference mark and outputs a captured image in which the reference mark is... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100040279 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BUILD 3-DIMENSIONAL GRID MAP AND METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL AUTOMATIC TRAVELING APPARATUS USING THE SAME A method and apparatus to build a 3-dimensional grid map and a method and apparatus to control an automatic traveling apparatus using the same. In building a 3-dimensional map to discern a current location and a peripheral environment of an unmanned vehicle or a mobile ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036393 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR THREEDIMENSIONAL INPUT, AND CONTROL METHODS AND SYSTEMS BASED THEREON A Robotic control system has a wand, which emits multiple narrow beams of light, which fall on a light sensor array, or with a camera, a surface, defining the wand's changing position and attitude which a computer uses to direct relative motion of robotic tools or remot... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030379 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS DEVICE The invention describes a method of controlling an autonomous device (1), which autonomous device records ambient data and optionally transmits the recorded ambient data, which method comprises positioning an indicator (S1, S2, S3... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100021051 | Automated Guidance and Recognition System and Method of the Same Disclosed herein are embodiments and methods of a visual guidance and recognition system requiring no calibration. One embodiment of the system comprises a servo actuated manipulator configured to perform a function, a camera mounted on the face plate of the manipulator... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090208094 | ROBOT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME To make it possible, in a robot apparatus that performs actions in response to external environment, to distinguish the image of a part of its own body contained in three dimensional data of the external environment. A robot 1 includes a visual sensor 101 ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090190826 | WORKING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF A working apparatus comprises a working unit which executes work on a work subject, and a calibration jig on which a plurality of markers is arranged in a radial pattern from a center point of markers, the plurality of markers being arranged in three dimensions, and the... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090192647 | OBJECT SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD An object search apparatus acquires, from each IC tag of IC tags corresponding to objects respectively, an object information item including an identifier of an object, a hierarchical level, a detection method for detection of the object, and a manipulation method for t... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090154791 | Simultaneous localization and map building method and medium for moving robot A simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) method and medium for a moving robot is disclosed. The SLAM method includes extracting a horizontal line from an omni-directional image photographed at every position where the mobile robot reaches during a movement of... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090154769 | Moving robot and moving object detecting method and medium thereof A moving robot and moving object detecting method and medium thereof is disclosed. The moving object detecting method includes transforming an omni-directional image captured in the moving robot to a panoramic image, comparing the panoramic image with a previous panoram... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090148034 | Mobile robot There is disclosed a mobile robot including an image processor that generates recognition information regarding a target object included in a taken image, and a main controller integrally controlling the robot based on this recognition information. The image processor e... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090148035 | CONTROLLER OF MOBILE ROBOT A controller of a mobile robot that moves an object such that the position of a representative point of the object and the posture of the object follow a desired position and posture trajectory is provided. The desired posture trajectory of the object includes the desir... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090116728 | Method and System for Locating and Picking Objects Using Active Illumination A method and system determines a 3D pose of an object in a scene. Depth edges are determined from a set of images acquired of a scene including multiple objects while varying illumination in the scene. The depth edges are linked to form contours. The images are segmente... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090110265 | System for Forming Patterns on a Multi-Curved Surface According to one embodiment, a pattern forming system includes a patterning tool, a multi-axis robot, and a simulation tool that are coupled to a pattern forming tool that is executed on a suitable computing system. The pattern forming tool receives a contour measuremen... | 04/30/2009 |
