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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2020
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Donghak Lee, Seoul, KR;
Jungsik Kim, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A robot can include a position measuring sensor to measure a position of the robot as the robot moves in an outdoor space; a camera to acquire an image of surroundings of the robot; a memory configured to store place information including positions and appearance feature information of a plurality of places existing in the outdoor space; and at least one processor to extract one or more appearance features of M first places in the image, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, select one or more positions of N second places from the place information stored in the memory based on the one or more appearance features of the M first places in the image, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M, and generate a corrected position for the robot.