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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2010
Tomonobu Naruoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Tanigawa, Kyoto, JP;
Tomonobu Naruoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Tanigawa, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The apparatus is provided with a holding-state registering database in which an article and a holding state at the time of transporting the article are registered in association with each other, holding-state determination processing device that determines, when a person is transporting an object article, how the object article is held, and first article candidate extraction device that extracts, among articles registered in the holding-state registering database, an article whose holding state, determined by the holding-state determination processing device, is registered therein, as a candidate article.