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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2011
Suuk Choe, Seoul, KR;
Younggie Kim, Guri, KR;
Jeongsuk Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Seongsoo Lee, Suwon, KR;
Junho Jang, Seoul, KR;
Sangik NA, Seoul, KR;
Yiebin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Donghoon Yi, Seoul, KR;
Seungmin Baek, Yongin, KR;
Suuk Choe, Seoul, KR;
Younggie Kim, Guri, KR;
Jeongsuk Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Seongsoo Lee, Suwon, KR;
Junho Jang, Seoul, KR;
Sangik Na, Seoul, KR;
Yiebin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Donghoon Yi, Seoul, KR;
Seungmin Baek, Yongin, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A robot cleaner has a camera to generate an image of a cleaning area, a controller to prepare a cleaning map based on the image and to drive a robot cleaner, and a communicator to transmit the image and cleaning map to an external device and to receive a control command from the external device. The image and map may be transmitted over a local or wide area network, and the external device may be a computer, television, smart phone, portable phone, or other type of wireless access device.