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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takara Kasai, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Kokubo, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuharu Fukushima, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Miyamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided is a robot arm apparatus including an arm unit made up of a plurality of links joined to each other by one or a plurality of a joint unit, the arm unit being connectable to an imaging unit; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the arm unit by causing each joint unit to be driven cooperatively. The drive control unit uses relative position information of a reference position with respect to the arm unit, the relative position information being based on a state of the arm unit and distance information about a distance between the imaging unit and the reference position, to control the driving of the arm unit in a manner that the reference position is positioned on an optical axis of the imaging unit.