IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,093,750
Granted Patent B2
US 11,093,750 · App. 16/793,735 · Granted Aug 17, 2021

Control system

Inventor: Akio Hiramatsu (Yamanashi, JP)
Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
G06K9/00718G05B23/02G05B23/0208G06K9/0063G06K9/00744
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,093,750
App. No.
16/793,735
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control device in a control system has a lighting control section which requests so as to cause the lighting state of an indicator lamp of a specific control unit to change in a predetermined identification pattern, and the control device or a terminal has: an indicator lamp recognition section which recognizes the indicator lamp in an image; a change pattern recognition section which recognizes a change in the lighting state of the indicator lamp in the image; an indicator lamp specification section which specifies the indicator lamp having a change pattern in lighting state which matches the identification pattern, as the indicator lamp of the control unit which the lighting control section caused the lighting state to change in the identification pattern; and a display control section which causes information related to the control unit to be displayed on the monitor of the terminal.

Claims (13)

1. A control system which communicates with a plurality of control units having an indicator lamp capable of changing a lighting state as needed, and controls the plurality of control units, the control system comprising:

a control device which communicates with the plurality of control units; and

a terminal which has a camera and a monitor, and communicates with the control device,

wherein the control device has a lighting control section which requests so as to cause the lighting state of the indicator lamp of a specific one of the control units to change in a predetermined identification pattern, and

wherein the control device or the terminal has:

an indicator lamp recognition section which recognizes the indicator lamp in an image captured by the camera of the terminal;

a change pattern recognition section which recognizes a change in the lighting state of the indicator lamp in the image captured by the camera;

an indicator lamp specification section which specifies the indicator lamp having a change pattern in lighting state recognized by the change pattern recognition section which matches the identification pattern, as the indicator lamp of the control unit which the lighting control section caused the lighting state to change in the identification pattern; and

a display control section which causes information related to the control unit having the indicator lamp specified by the indicator lamp specification section to be displayed on the monitor of the terminal overlapping the image captured by the camera.

2. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the display control section causes a name of the control unit having the indicator lamp specified by the indicator lamp specification section to be displayed on the monitor.

3. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the display control section causes a communication state of the control unit having the indicator lamp specified by the indicator lamp specification section to be displayed on the monitor to be associated with the indicator lamp in the image captured by the camera.

4. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the lighting control section requests so that a plurality of the indicator lamps change simultaneously in identification patterns which differ from each other.

5. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the lighting control section requests, in a case of a plurality of the indicator lamps existing which have a change pattern of the lighting state recognized by the change pattern recognition section as matching the identification pattern, so as to cause the lighting state of the indicator lamps which are the same to change by substituting the identification pattern for which a plurality of the change patterns which match are existing with a different identification pattern.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 18, 2020
From: HIRAMATSU, AKIO
To: FANUC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051849/0723 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-030170 · Feb 22, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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