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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:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00664 (2013.01); G06T 7/0044 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30244 (2013.01); Y10S 901/47 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robot apparatus includes a reference-model storing unit configured to store a reference model of an object, a feature-value-table storing unit configured to store a feature value table that associates position data and orientation data of the reference model and a feature value, a photographed-image acquiring unit configured to capture a photographed image of the object, a detecting unit configured to calculate a photographed image feature value from the photographed image, and a driving control unit configured to control a robot main body on the basis of the position data and the orientation data to change the position and the orientation of a gripping unit.