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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2009
Anders O. Ekelund, Göteborg, SE;
Steve Murphy, Hovås, SE;
Anders O. Ekelund, Göteborg, SE;
Steve Murphy, Hovås, SE;
ABB Technology Ltd, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a robot teach pendant unit () coupled to a programmable robot controller (), the teach pendant comprising a graphical screen (), and a native user interface program () which creates a graphical user interface and displays the user interface on the graphical screen. The robot teach pendant further comprises a processing component () capable of receiving an application including one or more animated graphical objects, instructions for displaying the animated objects on the graphical screen, information on the behavior of the animated graphical objects, and instructions on how the user can interact with the animated graphical objects, and the processing component is configured to display the animated graphical objects on the screen and to set up a sandbox providing an isolation mechanism for safely running the application without disturbing the execution of normal teach pendant operations, and said user interface program is programmed to host directly the processing component and instructing it to load and display the application containing the animated graphical objects.