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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2015
Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation, Kawasaki-shi, JP;
Kota Watanabe, Seto, JP;
Hirokazu Izawa, Aisai, JP;
Kazuhiro Furuta, Seto, JP;
Yuuki Marutani, Nagakute, JP;
TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION, Kawasaki-shi, JP;
Abstract
A vacuum cleaner main body capable of picking up images over a wide range by a camera securely without being interrupted by any obstacles. The vacuum cleaner main body includes a main casing, a camera capable of picking up images and provided in the main casing, driving wheels for enabling the main casing to travel, a sensor part provided in the main casing to detect a distance to an obstacle around the main casing, and a control unit. The control unit has at least a traveling mode and an image pickup mode. In the image pickup mode, the control unit makes the main casing autonomously travel to an image pickup position where no obstacles within a certain distance around the main casing are detected by the sensor part and where still images in a plurality of directions are picked up.
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