Article handling system and method and article management system and method
US7187998B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 11, 2006 |
| Grant date | Mar 6, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/39387
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A camera or other sensing unit senses the conditions of articles and mobile entities, including humans within a living space. An article management/operation server manages, within an article database, attribute information about the articles, including operators, according to the information from the sensing unit. The server receives a user's instruction, input through a console unit, and refers to the article database to convert this instruction into a control command, which is then transmitted to a life-support robot.
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