Patent ID: 9375119
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: A47L,B25J,G05D,G08B,G10L,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A robot cleaner, comprising: a sound input unit having one or more microphones, and configured to receive an ambient sound; a sound recognition unit configured to recognize the received ambient sound, in a separation manner into an event sound and an environmental sound; a message output unit configured to output a message corresponding to the event sound or the environmental sound; a storage unit configured to store an event sound model with respect to the event sound, and an environmental sound model with respect to the environmental sound; a control unit configured to detect a direction or a position of a sound source with respect to the event sound; an image detection unit configured to detect image information by capturing the periphery of the sound source position; and a communication unit configured to transmit, via a communication network, the message, or the image information, or both of the message and the image information, wherein the sound recognition unit is configured to: recognize a sound of the ambient sound, which matches the event sound model, as the event sound, the ambient sound being recognized at intervals of first time; and recognize a sound of the ambient sound, which matches the environmental sound model, as the environmental sound, the ambient sound being recognized at intervals of second time longer than the first time.