Abstract: An object search apparatus acquires, from each IC tag of IC tags corresponding to objects respectively, an object information item including an identifier of an object, a hierarchical level, a detection method for detection of the object, and a manipulation method for the object, to obtain a plurality of object information items including a target object information item of a target object, selects, from the object information items, an object information item higher in the hierarchical level than the target object, detects an object corresponding to selected object information item by using the detection method in the selected object information item, manipulates detected object in accordance with the manipulation method in the selected object information item, selects target object information item from the object information items, and detects the target object from the detected object by using the detection method in the target object information item.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes unit reading, from first objects, information items for determining program procedures used to detect the first objects by image processing, unit selecting, from the program procedures, program procedures corresponding to the information items, and to determine an order of execution of the selected program procedures, unit acquiring an initial image including images corresponding to the first objects, the initial image being used for executing a first program procedure of a first order of execution, which is included in the selected program procedures, unit detecting, using the initial image, at least one of the first objects by executing the first program procedure corresponding to at least one of the first objects, and unit generating a post-removal image obtained by removing, from the initial image, image data corresponding to one of the images, which is on a first area corresponding to at least one detected object.

Abstract: There is provided a robot apparatus which can improve work safety while ensuring high working efficiency and a control method for the robot apparatus. The robot apparatus includes a moving body detection unit which generates a predicted moving range for a movable unit region by predicting a range within which the movable unit region moves using a plurality of images sequentially sensed by an image sensing unit and attempts to detect a moving body in the predicted moving range and a control unit which, if a moving body is detected by the moving body direction unit, changes the operation of a movable unit.

Abstract: A moving robot includes a first arm portion is coupled to a first joint on a side portion of a main robot body. The first arm portion has concave portion with an opening. A folding mechanism is accommodated in the concave portion. In the folding mechanism, a second arm portion is connected to the first arm via a second joint portion. A third arm portion is also connected to the second arm portion via a third joint portion. The first arm portion is rotated around the first joint to orient the opening in an upper direction. The second joint portion can be slid along the concave portion to take out the folding mechanism through the opening. The third arm portion can be rotated around the third joint portion to extend the third arm portion.

Abstract: A first image obtained by taking a moving object at a frame time point t by a first imaging device, a second image obtained by taking the moving object at a frame time point t+?t by a second imaging device having a view point different from that of the first imaging device, and a third image obtained by taking the moving object at a frame time point t??t by the second imaging device are acquired. A first corresponding point on the first image corresponding to an arbitrary point on the second image is searched for, and the disparity of the arbitrary point is measured. Motion information of the arbitrary point is calculated on the basis of the third image, and by use of the motion information as a correction amount, the disparity is corrected. Three-dimensional position information of the arbitrary point is calculated on the basis of the corrected disparity.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring device which acquires a first image and a second image obtained by sensing an image of a moving object from two different viewpoints using a first imaging device and a second imaging device. A first detecting device detects a plurality of feature points from the first image. A stereo image processing device obtains a disparity distribution representing a disparity for the each feature point by performing stereo image processing using the first image and the second image. A first determining device determines a threshold for the disparities in the disparity distribution. A classifying device classifies a feature point having a disparity exceeding the threshold in the disparity distribution as an intra-moving-object feature point. A second detecting device detects an image area of the moving object in the first image by using the intra-moving-object feature point.