Robot and robot system comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11260533-B2
Application number	US-201716340546-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Oct 13, 2016
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

An embodiment provides a robot including an image photographing unit configured to photograph image information about boarding-scheduled persons located in a gate region differing from a set boarding gate region of a flight-scheduled airplane, an image recognizer configured to perform image processing on the image information to recognize a boarding person matching a facial image of a ticket-issued person of the flight-scheduled airplane among the boarding-scheduled persons, and a controller configured to, when the boarding person is recognized, output movement path information so that the boarding person moves to the boarding gate region.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A robot comprising:
an image sensor configured to photograph image information about one or more persons located in a first region differing from a second region;
an image recognizer configured to recognize one of the persons located in the first region as a ticket-issued person when the image information for the person located in the first region corresponds to an image of the ticket-issued person; and
a controller configured to, based on recognizing the person located in the first region as the ticket-issued person, output movement path information that guides the person located in the first region to the second region,
wherein the movement path information includes at least one of a movement path from a position of the a ticket-issued person to the boarding gate region, a movement time, or a boarding start time.

2. The robot of claim 1 , further comprising a communication interface configured to receive the image of the ticket-issued person from a computing device.

3. The robot of claim 1 , further comprising:
a motor configured to provide a force to move the robot; and
a user interface configured to output the movement path information.

4. The robot of claim 3 , further comprising:
a controller configured to:
calculate, based on recognizing the person located in the first region as the ticket-issued person, the position of the ticket-issued person from the image information; and
control the motor to move the robot to a set position corresponding to the position of the ticket-issued person, and control the user interface to output the movement path information when the robot moves to the set position.

5. The robot of claim 3 , wherein the user interface includes at least one of a monitor configured to display the movement path information or a speaker configured to provide audio associated with the movement path information.

6. A robot comprising:
a communication interface configured to receive, from a computing device, facial information and mobile terminal information for a ticket-issued person, and change information related to a ticket issued to the ticket-issued person;
an image sensor configured to photograph image information about persons located in a first region differing from a second region associated with the ticket;
an image recognizer configured to recognize one of the persons located in the first region as the ticket-issued person when the image information for the person corresponds to the facial information for the ticket-issued person; and
a controller configured to, based on recognizing the person in the first region as the ticket-issued person, control the communication interface so that at least a portion of the change information is transmitted to a mobile terminal of the ticket-issued person, based on the mobile terminal information,
wherein the change information includes at least one of a changed departure time, a changed boarding time, or a changed boarding gate that each correspond to a scheduled flight.

7. The robot of claim 6 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
based on recognizing the person in the first region as the ticket-issued person, determine whether data identifying a mobile terminal number is included in the mobile terminal information; and
when the mobile terminal information includes the data identifying the mobile terminal number, control the communication interface to transmit the change information based on the mobile terminal number.

8. The robot of claim 7 , wherein the controller is further configured to, when the mobile terminal information does not include the data identifying the mobile terminal number, calculate a position of the ticket-issued person in the first region from the image information.

9. The robot of claim 8 , further comprising:
a user interface; and
a motor configured to provide a force to move the robot,
wherein, when the position of the ticket-issued person in the first region is calculated, the controller manages the motor to move the robot to a set position based on the position of the ticket-issued person in the first region, and then, controls the user interface to output the change information and the movement path information to guide the ticket-issued person to move to the second region.

10. The robot of claim 9 , wherein the user interface includes at least one of a monitor configured to display the change information and the movement path information or a speaker configured to output audio associated with the change information and the movement path information.

11. The robot of claim 6 , wherein, when the change information includes data identifying the changed boarding gate, the change information further identifies a movement path from a position of the ticket-issued person in the first region to the changed boarding gate.

12. A robot system comprising:
a camera configured to photograph facial images of ticket-issued persons;
a computing device configured to store mobile terminal information about each of the ticket-issued persons and the facial images mapped to the mobile terminal information, and when change information about tickets issued to the ticket-issued persons is received from an input device, select a specific ticket-issued person satisfying a set criterion from among the ticket-issued persons; and
a plurality of robots configured to, based on a request received from the computing device, collect image information about persons located in a set region and transmit the image information to the computing device,
wherein the computing device includes:
a target recognizer configured to, when the change information is input, recognize a subset of the persons located in the first set region as the ticket-issued persons, based on determining that the image information for the subset of the persons located in the first set region corresponds to the facial images for the ticket-issued persons;
a target selector configured to select the specific ticket-issued person satisfying the set criterion among the persons in the first region; and
a controller configured to, based on the specific ticket-issued person being selected, perform control so that specific robot of the robots transfers the change information to the specific ticket-issued person,
wherein the flight change information includes at least one of a changed departure time, a changed boarding time, or a changed boarding gate that each correspond to a scheduled flight.

13. The robot system of claim 12 , wherein
the set criterion relates to identifying, as the specific ticket-issued person, a person who does not board at the changed departure time, a person who does not reach a boarding gate at the changed boarding time, or a person who does not reach the changed boarding gate.

14. The robot system of claim 12 , wherein the target selector calculates a position of each of the ticket-issued persons, based on positions of the robots and set positions of auxiliary facilities.

15. The robot system of claim 12 , wherein, when the specific ticket-issued person is selected, the controller transmits movement information identifying a set position corresponding to a position of the specific ticket-issued person and the change information to the specific robot, and wherein the specific robot is selected based on being positioned adjacent to the position of the specific ticket-issued person among the robots.

16. The robot system of claim 15 , wherein the specific robot includes:
an image sensor configured to photograph, as a portion the image information, one or more of the persons in the f

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Yang Sunho

Classifications

• B25J13/006

  by means of a wireless system for controlling one or several manipulators · CPC title

• B25J5/00

  Manipulators mounted on wheels or on carriages (B25J1/00 takes precedence; programme-controlled manipulators B25J9/00 {; vehicle aspects B60, B62, e.g. remote-controlled steering for motor vehicles B62D1/24; control of position of vehicles G05D1/00}) · CPC title

• B25J11/0005 Primary

  Manipulators having means for high-level communication with users, e.g. speech generator, face recognition means · CPC title

• B25J19/023

  including video camera means · CPC title

• B25J9/1697 Primary

  Vision controlled systems · CPC title