ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,790, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Remote operation method, storage medium, remote operation device, and remote operation system" was invented by Itoshi Naramura (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote operation method of a robot includes: a conversion step of converting an operation input to a joint angle command value of the robot when an operator performs an operation; an acquisition step of acquiring actual visual information of a space in which the robot is present; a generation step of generating virtual visual information of an arbitrary viewpoint in the space in which the robot...