IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,045,972
Granted Patent B2
US 12,045,972 · App. 17/783,297 · Granted Jul 23, 2024

Video confirmation computer

Inventors: Shinya Kitano (Kobe, JP); Atsushi Nakaya (Kobe, JP); Masaya Yoshida (Kobe, JP); Kazuo Fujimori (Kobe, JP); Hiroyuki Okada (Kobe, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G06T7/0004G06F3/04847G06T11/00G06T2207/30148
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Patent No.
US 12,045,972
App. No.
17/783,297
Granted
Jul 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A video confirmation computer for confirming video related to robot operation includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores information on the position of the electric motor that drives a link body of the robot received from the controller of the robot and information on the video obtained by a camera attached to the robot. The processor makes at least one of the video confirmation computer itself and a computer connected to the video confirmation computer display a model area and a video area side by side. In the model area, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional model reproducing the posture of the robot is displayed by computer graphics. In the video area, the video is displayed.

Claims (18)

1. A video confirmation computer for confirming a condition of a substrate shown in a video of operation performed by a robot, the video confirmation computer comprising:

a storage unit capable of storing information; and

a processor that outputs information based on stored contents of the storage unit, wherein

the storage unit stores:

information of a position of an electric motor that drives a link body of the robot received from a controller of the robot; and

information of the video obtained by a camera attached to the robot by being fixed to the link body to which a robot hand capable of holding the substrate is fixed, the information of the video configured to show the condition of the substrate, and

the processor makes at least one of the video confirmation computer itself and a computer connected to the video confirmation computer display side by side:

a model area in which a two-dimensional or three-dimensional model reproducing a posture of the robot is displayed by computer graphics; and

a video area in which the video is displayed.

2. The video confirmation computer according to claim 1 , wherein

time corresponding to the model displayed in the model area and time corresponding to the video displayed in the video area are synchronized.

3. The video confirmation computer according to claim 2 , wherein

the storage unit stores a communication log in which the controller communicates with another device,

in addition to the model area and the video area, the processor makes at least one of the video confirmation computer itself and the computer connected to the video confirmation computer display a log area in which history of the communication log is output, and

timing of displaying the history of the communication log in the log area is synchronized with time in the model area and the video area.

4. The video confirmation computer according to claim 2 , wherein

the processor makes a common seek bar be displayed for specifying time corresponding to the model in the model area and time corresponding to the video displayed in the video area.

5. The video confirmation computer according to claim 1 , wherein the model area comprises a control area comprising controls configured to control the display of the two-dimensional or three-dimensional model reproducing the posture of the robot by computer graphics to be reproduced or stopped in the model area and, by reproducing or stopping the display of the two-dimensional or three-dimensional model with the controls, the video is correspondingly reproduced or stopped.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2023
From: KITANO, SHINYA; NAKAYA, ATSUSHI; YOSHIDA, MASAYA; FUJIMORI, KAZUO; OKADA, HIROYUKI
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 062463/0182 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2019-222900 · Dec 10, 2019 · national
JP 2020-099458 · Jun 8, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230019019A1 · Jan 19, 2023
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