Patent Document ID: 20080304707
Application ID: 12134354
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An information processing apparatus that executes processing for creating an environmental map, the information processing apparatus comprising: a camera that photographs an image; a self-position detecting unit that detects a position and a posture of the camera on the basis of the image acquired by the camera; an image-recognition processing unit that detects an object from the image acquired by the camera; a data constructing unit that is inputted with information concerning the position and the posture of the camera detected by the self-position detecting unit and information concerning the object detected by the image-recognition processing unit and executes processing for creating or updating the environmental map; and a dictionary-data storing unit having stored therein dictionary data in which object information including at least three-dimensional shape data corresponding to objects is registered, wherein the image-recognition processing unit executes processing for detecting an object from the image acquired by the camera with reference to the dictionary data, and the data constructing unit applies the three-dimensional shape data registered in the dictionary data to the environmental map and executes object arrangement on the environmental map.