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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
May. 19, 2021
Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Vanessa Wiegel, Needham, MA (US);
Stephen O'Dea, Bedford, MA (US);
Kathleen Ann Mahoney, Spencerport, NY (US);
Qunxi Huang, Somerville, MA (US);
Michael Foster, Stoneham, MA (US);
Brian Ratta, Burlington, MA (US);
Garrett Strobel, Boston, MA (US);
Scott Marchant, Saratoga Springs, UT (US);
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a handheld computing device, a graphical representation of a map including a plurality of selectable rooms, presenting, on the display, at least one selectable graphical divider representing boundaries of at least one of the plurality of selectable rooms, the at least one selectable graphical divider being adjustable to change at least one of the boundaries of the plurality of selectable rooms, receiving input, at the handheld computing device, representing a selection of an individual selectable graphical divider, receiving input, at the handheld computing device, representing at least one adjustment to the individual selectable graphical divider, the at least one adjustment including at least one of moving, rotating, or deleting the individual selectable graphical divider, and presenting, on the display, a graphical representation of a map wherein the individual selectable graphical divider is adjusted.