Abstract
A patent application by the inventors MATSUMOTO, Shinya (Kyoto-shi, KYOTO, JP); TONOGAI, Norikazu (Kyoto-shi, KYOTO, JP), filed on September 14, 2021, was made available online on January 18, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “For safe operation at manufacturing or other sites, an area including an object (contact area) within a predetermined area is determined in advance. “Patent Literature 1 describes a robot control device that determines an area (contact area) including an object by obtaining depth data at each point on the surface of the object using a depth sensor (a three-dimensional or 3D sensor) on a robot.”
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