An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

An Internet appliance, comprising, within a single housing, packet data network interfaces, adapted for communicating with the Internet and a local area network, at least one data interface selected from the group consisting of a universal serial bus, an IEEE-1394 interface, a voice telephony interface, an audio program interface, a video program interface, an audiovisual program interface, a camera interface, a physical security system interface, a wireless networking interface; a device control interface, smart home interface, an environmental sensing interface, and an environmental control interface, and a processor, for controlling a data transfer between the local area network and the Internet, and defining a markup language interface communicated through a packet data network interface, to control a data transfer or control a remote device.

Internet appliance system and method

A remote controlled robot system that includes a robot and a remote control station. The robot includes a binaural microphone system that is coupled to a speaker system of the remote control station. The binaural microphone system may include a pair of microphones located at opposite sides of a robot head. the location of the microphones roughly coincides with the location of ears on a human body. Such microphone location creates a mobile robot that more effectively simulates the tele-presence of an operator of the system. The robot may include two different microphone systems and the ability to switch between systems. For example, the robot may also include a zoom camera system and a directional microphone. The directional microphone may be utilized to capture sound from a direction that corresponds to an object zoomed upon by the camera system.

Mobile tele-presence system with a microphone system

A remote controlled robot with a head that supports a monitor and is coupled to a mobile platform. The mobile robot also includes an auxiliary camera coupled to the mobile platform by a boom. The mobile robot is controlled by a remote control station. By way of example, the robot can be remotely moved about an operating room. The auxiliary camera extends from the boom so that it provides a relatively close view of a patient or other item in the room. An assistant in the operating room may move the boom and the camera. The boom may be connected to a robot head that can be remotely moved by the remote control station.

Telepresence robot with a camera boom

In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory storage system for storing information organized in sectors within a nonvolatile memory bank is disclosed. The memory bank is defined by sector storage locations spanning across one or more rows of a nonvolatile memory device, each the sector including a user data portion and an overhead portion. The sectors being organized into blocks with each sector identified by a host provided logical block address (LBA). Each block is identified by a modified LBA derived from the host-provided LBA and said virtual PBA, said host-provided LBA being received by the storage device from the host for identifying a sector of information to be accessed, the actual PBA developed by said storage device for identifying a free location within said memory bank wherein said accessed sector is to be stored. The storage system includes a memory controller coupled to the host; and a nonvolatile memory bank coupled to the memory controller via a memory bus, the memory bank being included in a non-volatile semiconductor memory unit, the memory bank has storage blocks each of which includes a first row-portion located in said memory unit, and a corresponding second row-portion located in each of the memory unit, each of the memory row-portions provides storage space for two of said sectors, wherein the speed of performing write operations is increased by writing sector information to the memory unit simultaneously.

Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices

A robot control apparatus stores the result of operation on the inertia term of an equation of motion depending upon the position of the robot arm, so that the operation period on the inertia term is set longer than the operation period on the drive torque. In controlling the robot with the same precision, therefore, the drive torque can be calculated in a short period of operation time.

Robot control apparatus

A servo motor controller having: a frequency identification section that performs analysis based on a frequency response method and identifies the frequency of a disturbance exhibiting a specified phase lag; an input/output gain identification section that identifies the input/output gain at the frequency identified by the frequency identification section; and a magnification factor resetting section that resets an adjustment magnification factor by performing a specified operation on a ratio between the identified input/output gain and a specified target value of the input/output gain.

Servo motor controller

A system for coupling a visual sensor processor B and a robot controller A, in order to inexpensively constitute the whole system while maintaining increased processing speed. For this purpose, the visual sensor processor B and the robot controller A are couplped together through bidirectional high-speed data transfer channels (10, 28, /1, /2), so that the data required for the two apparatuses can be exchanged through these channels. Utilizing these channels, furthermore, a non-volatile memory (6) and serial interface (12) for connection to an external input/output device, installed in the robot controller A, are commonly used for these two apparatuses.

System for coupling a visual sensor processor and a robot controller.

A speed control system which enables simultaneous estimation of the speed by an observer based upon position data fed from a rotary encoder and the load torque causative of constant estimation errors, to thereby control the speed by using the estimated value. The position data fed from the rotary encoder is fed back to the integral control element of the I-P controller to control the speed of a motor.

Speed control system

A servo control circuit, which is employed to drive a servo motor at a commanded speed and torque, is provided with a servo motor voltage supply circuit, a servo motor drive current detection circuit, a servo motor revolution detector, a counter which counts revolution detection pulses therefrom, a processor which controls a current loop in accordance with an external torque command input, and also controls the output voltage of the voltage supply circuit, and a main processor which outputs the torque command. It is possible to omit the counter which is conventionally employed for inputting positional data, since the number of pulses generated during a period T1 for the current loop control is counted and utilized as positional data during a period T2 for the main processor. Therefore, the servo control circuit is advantageous from the viewpoints of both construction and economy, and is applicable to the control of various kinds of DC or AC servo motor.

Mitsuo Kurakake

Papers

Robot control apparatus

Servo motor controller

System for coupling a visual sensor processor and a robot controller.

Speed control system

Servo control circuit