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Method for cleaning or processing a room by means of an autonomously mobile device

  • US 9,911,226 B2
  • Filed: 07/21/2015
  • Issued: 03/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for cleaning or processing a room via an autonomously mobile device, including the method steps:

  • Creating a map of the room,Storing the map of the room in a data memory,Selection of a subarea of the room by a user in that the user takes a photograph of the subarea,Transmitting the photograph containing location data for the selected subarea or transmitting the photograph which can be processed to determine location data for the selected subarea to a processing unit connected to the data memory,Comparing the location data for the selected subarea with the location data contained in the map for identification of the subarea by the processing unit, andCleaning or processing the room taking into account a user command with regard to the selected subarea,wherein the user takes the photograph using a mobile end device,wherein the map is displayed on the mobile end device,wherein alternatively calculated subareas matching most closely the location data of the subarea selected by the user are marked on the map, andwherein if the subarea selected by the user is not identified unambiguously, the user chooses one of the alternatively calculated subareas.

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