US 12,243,222 B2
Dismantling procedure selecting apparatus, dismantling procedure selecting method, and dismantling apparatus
Shingo Hamada, Osaka (JP); and Syougo Utumi, Hyogo (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/807,852.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-121688 (JP), filed on Jul. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0021714 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06Q 10/0633 (2023.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/77 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 7/001 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0633 (2013.01); G06T 1/0014 (2013.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06V 10/443 (2022.01); G06V 10/7715 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30164 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dismantling procedure selecting apparatus comprising:
a dismantling information storing memory that stores a plurality of pieces of dismantling information respectively including a plurality of predetermined dismantling procedures for a plurality of dismantled objects each used as a reference for dismantling an object to be dismantled;
a whole detector that captures a whole image of the object to be dismantled;
a detail detector that captures an image of at least a portion of the object to be dismantled; and
a dismantling procedure deriver that extracts a first feature as a feature of the object to be dismantled based on data obtained by capturing an image by at least one of the whole detector and the detail detector, obtains a degree of matching between the first feature and a second feature for each of a plurality of second features that are respectively features of the plurality of dismantled objects, and selects a dismantling procedure associated with one of the plurality of the dismantled objects having a second feature having a highest degree of matching among the plurality of second features, wherein
the plurality of dismantling procedures are respectively procedures of separating or disassembling the plurality of dismantled objects by components, and
each of the plurality of pieces of dismantling information includes
one of the plurality of dismantling procedures, and
a second feature, among the plurality of second features, associated with the one of the plurality of dismantling procedures,
the first feature includes at least one of
a structure of a fastening portion between parts constituting a housing of the object to be dismantled,
positional information of a fixing member that fixes parts, constituting the object to be dismantled, to each other, and
a material of a part constituting the object to be dismantled, and
each of the plurality of second features includes at least one of
a structure of a fastening portion between parts constituting a housing of a respective one of the plurality of dismantled objects,
positional information of a fixing member that fixes parts, constituting the respective one of the plurality of dismantled objects, to each other, and
a material of a part constituting the respective one of the plurality of dismantled objects.