US 12,083,688 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program
Kazuo Hongo, Chiba (JP); Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tokyo (JP); and Shunsuke Yajima, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/281,739
Filed by SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/038507
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 31, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/075553, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-192874 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394365 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01); A61F 4/00 (2006.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 9/1697 (2013.01) [A61F 4/00 (2013.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a robotic arm device configured to arrange one or more objects within a determined range of a user; and
circuitry configured to
determine one or more characteristics of the user,
determine an arrangement position of each object of the one or more objects to be arranged within the determined range of the user based on the one or more determined characteristics of the user, and
initiate control of the robotic arm device to arrange each object within the determined range of the user according to the determined arrangement position of the object,
wherein the circuitry determines the one or more characteristics of the user based on image information obtained from a captured image including the user, and
wherein the circuitry determines the arrangement position of at least one of the one or more objects to be arranged within the determined range of the user further based on a relationship between the user and another user included in the captured image.