Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Robot for automatically following a person
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Application No.: US15883841Application Date: 2018-01-30
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Publication No.: US11605244B2Publication Date: 2023-03-14
- Inventor: Junghyun Lee , Sunggil Park , Dongmyung Shin , Hyeongshin Jeon , Hyukdoo Choi
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: KED & Associates, LLP
- Priority: KR10-2017-0014093 20170131
- Main IPC: G06T7/50
- IPC: G06T7/50 ; G06T7/11 ; G06T7/194 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G06V40/20

Abstract:
Disclosed is a cleaner. The cleaner includes a cleaner body, a suction nozzle configured to suck dust on a floor surface, and a suction hose configured to transfer the dust, transferred from the suction nozzle, to the cleaner body. The cleaner body includes a driving driver or motor moving the cleaner body, a depth sensor configured to obtain image information about an object near the cleaner body, and a processor configured to extract a foot sole region of a person, based on the obtained image information, obtain a moving point of the cleaner body, based on the extracted foot sole region, and control the driving driver to move the cleaner body to the obtained moving point.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180213994A1 CLEANER Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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