ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,547, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device, robot, control method, and program" was invented by Norikazu Tonogai (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinya Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a robot including a three-dimensional sensor includes an operation controller that controls the robot to shift a measurement range of the three-dimensional sensor in a scan area, and a map obtainer that updates map information based on a result of measurement performed by the three-dimensional sensor. The map information indicates a scan status at each of a plurality of points in t...