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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kohji Kamejima, Chiyoda, JP;
Yoshiyuki Nakano, Hitachi, JP;
Masakatsu Fujie, Ushiku, JP;
Taro Iwamoto, Mito, JP;
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Chiyoda, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-1 ; 382 15 ; 382 22 ; 382 37 ; 901 47 ;
Abstract
In processing topographical information necessary for the traveling of a robot or the like furnished with an automatic traveling function; topography is predicted from the topographical information previously given, so as to prepare a predictive image, a difference image between the predictive image and an actual image caught by a television camera installed on the robot or the like is obtained, and the obtained result if used for correcting the topographical information previously given.