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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Jitsuo Sakamoto, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to find a route on which a self-propelling electronic device preferentially runs a region which (i) is designated by a user and (ii) the self-propelling electronic device ran less frequently. A server device () includes: a preferential running region specifying section () which specifies a predetermined number of regions in a running region included in a predetermined space which predetermined number of regions a self-propelling electronic device () has most recently run a fewest number or fewer numbers of times, the running region being a region which the self-propelling electronic device () can run and which is determined by a user's operation; a route searching section () which searches for a running route on which the self-propelling electronic device () runs at least once all of the predetermined number of regions in the running region, the predetermined number of regions being specified by the preferential running region specifying section (); and an instruction issuing section () which issues, to the self-propelling electronic device (), a control instruction for causing the self-propelling electronic device () to run the predetermined space along the running route searched for by the route searching section ().