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Displaying images from a robot

  • US 9,878,445 B2
  • Filed: 09/27/2013
  • Issued: 01/30/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by a robotic system including a mobile robot comprising a camera, the method comprising:

  • segmenting a map of a household into a plurality of areas of the household, each of the plurality of areas having a corresponding room identity;

    causing a display device to present, to a user, a plurality of room identity markers;

    for each of at least two room identities of a plurality of room identities corresponding to the plurality of areas;

    causing the display device to present, to the user, an image taken by the robot with the camera in an area of the plurality of areas corresponding to a room identity;

    receiving, using at least one processor remote from the mobile robot, a selection from the user of a room identity marker from the presented plurality of room identity markers; and

    assigning the room identity marker to the room identity;

    causing the mobile robot to follow a planned path in a privacy mode, avoiding obstacles unanticipated in the planned path while image data from the camera is inaccessible to the user on the display device, to a position within the household corresponding to a designation of a destination room identity marker of the plurality of room identity markers, wherein causing the drive system of the mobile robot to follow the path further comprisesmoving the camera to an image-disabling position when the robot is along a portion of the planned path located outside of a destination area of the plurality of areas corresponding to a destination room identity assigned to the destination room identity marker; and

    moving the camera to an image-enabling position when the mobile robot is along a portion of the planned path located inside of the destination area; and

    enabling imagery to be presented on the display device in response to the robot reaching the position within the household.

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