Patent Document ID: 20160089783
Application ID: 14868828
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A control method for a robot cleaner, comprising: acquiring a plurality of images of surroundings during travel of the robot cleaner in a cleaning area, by an image acquisition unit; estimating a plurality of room-specific feature distributions according to a rule defined for each of a plurality of rooms, based on the images acquired while acquiring the plurality of images, by a feature distribution learning module; acquiring an image of surroundings at a current position of the robot cleaner, by the image acquisition unit; obtaining a comparison reference group comprising a plurality of room feature distributions by applying the rule for each of the plurality of rooms to the image acquired while acquiring the image at the current position, by a position recognition module; comparing the obtained comparison reference group with the estimated room-specific feature distributions, by the position recognition module; and determining a room from the plurality of rooms having the robot cleaner currently located therein, by the position recognition module.