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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2018
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Ryouta Miyazaki, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0033 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0214 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0217 (2013.01);
Abstract
When an application of an apparatus is remotely activated based on an instruction by a first user, whether a current position of the apparatus is included in a blind area of a second user is determined based on an image acquired by a camera. When the current position of the apparatus is not in the blind area, a target point included in the blind area is set, a driving mechanism is controlled, the apparatus is moved to the target point, and a speaker is caused to output speech corresponding to the application.