SELF-PROPELLED ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150039127A1
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Masashi, Miki, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,566,712 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/253
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2805 Parameters or conditions being sensed
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1697 Vision controlled systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/42 Transmitting or receiving remote control signals via a network
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances

Abstract

In a self-propelled vacuum cleaner (1), a housing operation management section (51) and an image transmission control section (53) receive a stop instruction for stopping a transmission operation of an image from a user. In a case where the stop instruction is received, the image transmission control section (53) stops the transmission operation of the image and sets a command non-reception mode. Upon receipt of the stop instruction for stopping the transmission operation of the image, the command control section (56) notifies, to a login terminal device which has transmitted a command of the transmission operation of the image, that the command non-reception mode in which reception of the operation command from the login terminal device is refused has been set in the self-propelled vacuum cleaner 1.

Claims

1. A self-propelled electronic device for performing an operation in response to a command transmitted from a terminal device connected via a communication network, the self-propelled electronic device capable of performing (i) a data generation operation for obtaining an image in an image capturing section or sound in a sound pickup section and generating image data or sound data (ii) a data transmission operation for transmitting the image data or the sound data thus generated to the terminal device via the communication network,

the self-propelled electronic device comprising:

a stop instruction receiving section for receiving a stop instruction for stopping the data generation operation or the data transmission operation;

a data control section for stopping the data generation operation or the data transmission operation when the stop instruction receiving section receives the stop instruction for stopping the data generation operation or the data transmission operation; and

a notification section for, when the stop instruction receiving section receives the stop instruction for stopping the data generation operation or the data transmission operation, notifying, to a terminal device which has transmitted a command of the data generation operation or the data transmission operation, that a command non-reception mode in which reception of an operation command from the terminal device is refused has been set in the self-propelled electronic device.

2. The self-propelled electronic device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the data control section stops the data generation operation or the data transmission operation in a case where the stop instruction receiving section receives the stop instruction while the data generation operation or the data transmission operation is being executed.

3. The self-propelled electronic device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the stop instruction is received by the stop instruction receiving section by operating an arbitrary button provided on a housing of the self-propelled electronic device.

4. The self-propelled electronic device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the stop instruction is received by the stop instruction receiving section by operating an arbitrary button provided on a remote controller of the self-propelled electronic device.

5. The self-propelled electronic device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein, in a case where a next command is received from the terminal device which has transmitted a command of the data generation operation or the data transmission operation, the notification section transmits, as a response, notification that the command non-reception mode has been set.