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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:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick Armstrong Finlay, Beaconsfield, GB;
Assignee:
Armstrong Healthcare Limited, Bucks, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
In order to register a robot, the operative parts of the robot are placed in a first condition. An image acquiring arrangement carried by the robot is directed towards an item, and the image of that item is acquired and stored. Subsequently the component parts of the robot are moved so that the image acquiring arrangement can acquire a second different image of the item. The process is repeated to acquire data including a plurality of images and, for each image, data concerning the position of the component parts of the robot when the image was acquired.