US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 25 for "External input device, robot system, control method of robot system, control program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,106, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"External input device, robot system, control method of robot system, control program, and recording medium" was invented by Toshihiko Mimura (Tokyo), Kazuki Otake (Saitama, Japan), Shingo Amano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Watanabe (Tokyo), Yasuaki Tokunaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kokubo (Tokyo) and Hideaki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external input device is employed, the external input device being configured to operate a robot system including an imaging apparatus capable of changing an imaging point of view and a robot apparatus, the external ...