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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); A63F 13/25 (2014.01); A63F 13/90 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); A63F 13/25 (2014.09); A63F 13/90 (2014.09); B25J 9/0003 (2013.01); B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); A63F 2300/8082 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for restricting user motion using a robot includes a robot comprising one or more barrier elements, a processing unit operable to identify one or more boundaries in a real environment and/or a virtual environment, the boundaries corresponding to a predetermined extent of allowed motion in that environment, and a control unit operable to control the robot such that at least one barrier element is arranged at a position corresponding to one of the identified boundaries.