ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,940, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Robot control system" was invented by Kensaku Ishizuka (Tokyo) and Taeko Inagawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture estimating circuit acquires image data in which images of a person are recorded, to estimate a posture of the person. A motion control circuit controls the motion of a robot device on the basis of a result of estimation by the posture estimating circuit. A first motion control circuit synchronizes a posture of the upper body of the robot device with a posture of the upper body of the person estimated by the posture estimatin...