Patents by Inventor Charith Lasantha Fernando

Charith Lasantha Fernando 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).

  • Patent number: 11911905
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a selection part that selects a scenario to be used which an operator who operates a robot uses while operating the robot from among a plurality of scenario candidates in which an elapsed time since the robot has started an action and action contents of the robot are associated with each other, and a robot control part that controls the robot on the basis of the scenario to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Telexistence Inc.
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Jan Rod, Takashi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 11548168
    Abstract: This control device has: a user information acquisition unit which acquires first user posture information that indicates the posture of a first user operating a robot; a pre-change robot information acquisition unit which, on the basis of the first user posture information, acquires pre-change posture information, which indicates the posture of the robot before the posture of the robot is changed; and a determination unit which determines, as the posture of the robot, a target posture, which is different from the posture of the first user, on the basis of the pre-change posture information and the first user posture information that is acquired by the user information acquisition unit at the time when the robot took the pre-change posture indicated by the pre-change posture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TELEXISTENCE INC.
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Susumu Tachi, Genki Sano, Kouta Minamizawa
  • Patent number: 11541546
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a terminal device has: a transmission unit which transmits, to a robot, operator state information indicating the state of a user operating the robot; a receiving unit which receives, from the robot, robot state information indicating the state of the robot; a sensation imparting unit which imparts a predetermined sensation to the user; and a control unit which, when a delay time required for the receiving unit to receive the robot state information after the transmission unit transmits the operator state information is no longer than a predetermined time, controls the sensation imparting unit so as to impart a sensation based on the robot state information to the user, and when the delay time is longer than the predetermined time, controls the sensation imparting unit to impart, to the user, a sensation based on virtual state information that indicates an estimated robot state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TELEXISTENCE INC.
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Susumu Tachi, Genki Sano, Kouta Minamizawa
  • Publication number: 20220019216
    Abstract: In a control apparatus that controls communication of a telexistence system including a slave robot and an operating device, a state acquisition part repeatedly acquires status reports respectively from the operating device, the slave robot, and a plurality of virtual routers that connect the operating device and the slave robot while communication between the operating device and the slave robot is established. A path determination part determines a communication path for transmitting a control instruction for controlling the motion of the slave robot to the slave robot on the basis of the acquired status reports when the state acquisition part acquires the status reports. An instruction transmitting part transmits an instruction for forming the communication path determined by the path determination part to each of the plurality of virtual routers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Li Ma, Charith Lasantha Fernando
  • Publication number: 20210201233
    Abstract: A reservation apparatus has an operator information acquisition part that acquires task information indicating content of task to be executed using any robots in association with an operator ID for identifying an operator U operating the robot, a selection part that selects a robot to be used by the operator U from among the plurality of robots on the basis of the contents of a task indicated by the task information, and a reservation processing part that causes a storage part to store, in association with the operator ID, a robot ID for identifying the robot to be used selected by the selection part and a reservation period during which the robot to be used become available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Jan Rod, Takashi Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20210187738
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a selection part that selects a scenario to be used which an operator who operates a robot uses while operating the robot from among a plurality of scenario candidates in which an elapsed time since the robot has started an action and action contents of the robot are associated with each other, and a robot control part that controls the robot on the basis of the scenario to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Jan Rod, Takashi Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20200078955
    Abstract: This control device has: a user information acquisition unit which acquires first user posture information that indicates the posture of a first user operating a robot; a pre-change robot information acquisition unit which, on the basis of the first user posture information, acquires pre-change posture information, which indicates the posture of the robot before the posture of the robot is changed; and a determination unit which determines, as the posture of the robot, a target posture, which is different from the posture of the first user, on the basis of the pre-change posture information and the first user posture information that is acquired by the user information acquisition unit at the time when the robot took the pre-change posture indicated by the pre-change posture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Susumu Tachi, Genki Sano, Kouta Minamizawa
  • Publication number: 20200078950
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a terminal device has: a transmission unit which transmits, to a robot, operator state information indicating the state of a user operating the robot; a receiving unit which receives, from the robot, robot state information indicating the state of the robot; a sensation imparting unit which imparts a predetermined sensation to the user; and a control unit which, when a delay time required for the receiving unit to receive the robot state information after the transmission unit transmits the operator state information is no longer than a predetermined time, controls the sensation imparting unit so as to impart a sensation based on the robot state information to the user, and when the delay time is longer than the predetermined time, controls the sensation imparting unit to impart, to the user, a sensation based on virtual state information that indicates an estimated robot state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Charith Lasantha Fernando, Susumu Tachi, Genki Sano, Kouta Minamizawa