Mobile tele-presence system with a microphone system
First Claim
1. A remote controlled robot system, comprising:
- a robot with a robot camera, a robot monitor, a robot microphone, a robot speaker, and a plurality of robot microphones; and
,a remote control station that transmits commands to control said robot, said remote control station includes a station camera coupled to said robot monitor, a station monitor coupled to said robot camera, a station microphone coupled to said robot speaker, and a station speaker system that is coupled to one or more of said plurality of robot microphones, wherein said station monitor displays a display user interface with a graphical interface that can be used to switch between said station speaker system reproducing sound from a first number of said plurality of robot microphones or reproducing sound from a second number of said plurality of robot microphones, wherein both of said first and second numbers are greater than or equal to one, and said first and second numbers are different.
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Abstract
A remote controlled robot system that includes a robot and a remote control station. The robot includes a binaural microphone system that is coupled to a speaker system of the remote control station. The binaural microphone system may include a pair of microphones located at opposite sides of a robot head. the location of the microphones roughly coincides with the location of ears on a human body. Such microphone location creates a mobile robot that more effectively simulates the tele-presence of an operator of the system. The robot may include two different microphone systems and the ability to switch between systems. For example, the robot may also include a zoom camera system and a directional microphone. The directional microphone may be utilized to capture sound from a direction that corresponds to an object zoomed upon by the camera system.
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14 Claims
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1. A remote controlled robot system, comprising:
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a robot with a robot camera, a robot monitor, a robot microphone, a robot speaker, and a plurality of robot microphones; and
,a remote control station that transmits commands to control said robot, said remote control station includes a station camera coupled to said robot monitor, a station monitor coupled to said robot camera, a station microphone coupled to said robot speaker, and a station speaker system that is coupled to one or more of said plurality of robot microphones, wherein said station monitor displays a display user interface with a graphical interface that can be used to switch between said station speaker system reproducing sound from a first number of said plurality of robot microphones or reproducing sound from a second number of said plurality of robot microphones, wherein both of said first and second numbers are greater than or equal to one, and said first and second numbers are different. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A remote controlled robot system, comprising:
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a robot with a camera system and a plurality of microphone systems that move together, said plurality of microphone systems includes a first microphone system having a first number of microphones and a second microphone system having a second number of microphones, said first and second numbers are different; and
,a remote control station that transmits commands to control said robot, said remote control station includes a speaker system that is coupled to at least one of said plurality of microphone systems and a monitor coupled to said robot camera, wherein said monitor displays a display user interface, said display user interface includes a graphical interface that can be used to switch between said first and second microphone systems. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for hearing sound produced at a site of a robot, comprising:
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capturing sound with a number of microphones of a robot that has a camera system; transmitting the sound to a remote control station; producing the sound at the remote control station; and
,displaying on a monitor of the remote control station a display user interface, said display user interface includes a graphical interface that can be used to change the number of microphones of the robot from which sound is produced at the remote control station, wherein said number of microphones is at least one. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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