Patents by Inventor Anthony George Robson

Anthony George Robson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Autonomously motile device with remote control
    Patent number: 11983006
    Abstract: Movement of an autonomously motile device may be controlled by a user device. The user device may display image data captured by a camera of the autonomously motile device; a user may provide input, such as a touch gesture on a display screen, indicating a command for the autonomously motile device to move to a location indicated by the input. The autonomously motile device determines a coordinate of the input and a time of the touch input; the autonomously motile device then determines a direction and distance of a corresponding movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy Solenberg, Anil Kumar Katta, Swati S. Rao, Swetha Bijoy, Anthony George Robson, David Allen Fotland, Robert Franklin Ebert, Roger Robert Webster, Adam Fineberg
  • System to maintain a dock location of an autonomous mobile device
    Patent number: 11912304
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves in a physical space and uses a dock located at a first pose. Sometimes a user may move the dock. To determine whether the dock has moved, the AMD compares first pose data that was previously obtained while at the dock in the first pose to second pose data, such as after a restart or after leaving the dock. If a difference between the first pose and the second pose is greater than a threshold, the dock has moved. The pose data may be determined using a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm to process images from cameras on the AMD. Transform data that relates coordinates of the second pose to coordinates of the first pose may be determined. If the dock is used as an origin for a map of the physical space, the transform data may be used to update the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Anton Kalachev, Xiaoxu Liu, Richard W. Kim, Anthony George Robson
  • AUTONOMOUSLY MOTILE DEVICE WITH REMOTE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20230120303
    Abstract: Movement of an autonomously motile device may be controlled by a user device. The user device may display image data captured by a camera of the autonomously motile device; a user may provide input, such as a touch gesture on a display screen, indicating a command for the autonomously motile device to move to a location indicated by the input. The autonomously motile device determines a coordinate of the input and a time of the touch input; the autonomously motile device then determines a direction and distance of a corresponding movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Amy Solenberg, Anil Kumar Katta, Swati S. Rao, Swetha Bijoy, Anthony George Robson, David Allen Fotland, Robert Franklin Ebert, Roger Robert Webster, Adam Fineberg
  • Autonomously motile device with remote control
    Patent number: 11409279
    Abstract: Movement of an autonomously motile device may be controlled by a user device. The user device may display image data captured by a camera of the autonomously motile device; a user may provide input, such as a touch gesture on a display screen, indicating a command for the autonomously motile device to move to a location indicated by the input. The autonomously motile device determines a coordinate of the input and a time of the touch input; the autonomously motile device then determines a direction and distance of a corresponding movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy Solenberg, Anil Kumar Katta, Swati S Rao, Swetha Bijoy, Anthony George Robson, David Allen Fotland, Robert Franklin Ebert, Roger Robert Webster, Adam Fineberg