Iguana Robotics, Inc.

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M Anthony Lewis

Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Kaijen Hsiao

Viktor Gruev

Chris F Milne

Ilyas M Ayub

Philippe Olivier-Marie Pouliquen

A device comprising an illumination means and a light sensing means, that can examine and memorize a discrete color of an object based on the magnitude of the reflected light bouncing off of the colored surface in at least three areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. The device also provides output as a visually and/or audibly perceptible signal for deciphering the color. The color range identified by the device is not limited to the visible spectrum and may include infra-red and ultra-violet light. A storage means for memorizing colors may also be included in the device. Applications of ColorStick technology may include children's toys, aids for the visually handicapped (e.g. blind or color blind individuals), designers, internet shoppers, gardeners, etc.

Colorstick

An artificial Central Pattern Generator (CPG) based on the naturally-occuring central pattern generator locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals may be constructed to be self-adaptive, by providing for the artificial CPG, which may be a chip, to tune its behavior based on sensory feedback. It is believed that this is the first instance of an adaptive CPG chip. Such a sensory feedback-using system with an artificial CPG may be used in mechanical applications such as a running robotic leg, in walking, flying and swimming machines, and in miniature and larger robots, and also in biological systems, such as a surrogate neural system for patients with spinal damage.

Biomorphic rhythmic movement controller

A 128(H)&#xd7;64(V)&#xd7;RGB CMOS imager is integrated with region-of-interest selection, RGB-to-HSI transformation, HSI-based pixel segmentation, 36-bins&#xd7;12bits HSI histogramming and sum-of-absolute-difference template matching. 32 learned color templates are stored and compared to each image. Running at 30 fps, it uses 1 mW.

Self-contained integrated color processing imager

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M Anthony Lewis