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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:
Jun. 06, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fanuc Ltd., Minamitsuru, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
31856816 ; 364134 ; 364513 ; 901-9 ; 901 47 ;
Abstract
A system for coupling a visual sensor processor (B) and a robot controller (A), so that the processing of the whole system is sped up and the configuration of the system is low-cost. To this end, the visual sensor processor (B) and the robot controller (A) are coupled together via a bidirectional high-speed data transfer channel (10, 28, l.sub.1, l.sub.2) for an exchange therebetween of required information. A nonvolatile memory (6) and a serial interface (12) for connection to an external input/output device, are installed in the robot controller (A), and are shared by the visual sensor processor (B) and the robot controller (A) through utilization of the channel.