Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kazuhide Sawa

Hideki Ogawa

Daisuke Yamamoto

Junya Tanaka

Takafumi Sonoura

Junji Oaki

Rie Katsuki

Kohei Nara

Keisuke Kamata

Hiroshi Ohtsu

According to an embodiment, an article posture changing device includes: a first end effector configured to grasp a projected tag of an article by adsorption; an arm unit configured to support the first end effector and move the first end effector along at least a vertical direction; and a controller configured to control the arm unit and the first end effector to grasp the tag, lift the article upward, separate the article from a placement surface, change an angle of the article by weight thereof, move the article downward, place the article on the placement surface, and release the grasp of the tag.

Article posture changing device and article posture changing method

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which includes a camera which photographs a subject to be photographed, a transmission module which transmits an image of the subject to be photographed by the camera to another information processing apparatus, a receiving module which receives coordinate information relating to a designated area within the image of the subject to be photographed, and a display module which displays an image of the subject to be photographed within the designated area based on the coordinate information transmitted from the another information processing apparatus so that a user can grasp the subject to be photographed within the designated area. According to the information processing apparatus thus configured, when one communication party points a subject displayed on a screen in a videophone etc., the other communication party can easily recognize the pointed portion.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

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Akishima Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhide Sawa