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ECE477 Senior Design Android Street Car Patent Liability Analysis. Team 12 Chun Ta Huang 2013/03/27. Project Overview. Our goal is to design a robot vehicle which can manually controlled by human with Android phone.
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ECE477 Senior DesignAndroid Street CarPatent Liability Analysis Team 12 Chun Ta Huang 2013/03/27
Project Overview • Our goal is to design a robot vehicle which can manually controlled by human with Android phone. • The vehicle can capture images, sensing the surroundings, feedback the information to the phone and some other minor functions.
Similar Patented Product • Robotic Vehicle - United States Patent No: 8316971 • 360 degree automobile video camera system - United States Patent No: 6333759 • Mobile robotic vehicle - United States Patent No: 8353373
Robotic Vehicle • Similarities: -- Have platform to put item on it -- Able to control in dangerous environment -- Control with PWM signals • Difference: -- Using Wheels instead of belt -- Able to rise the platform -- Able to transform the belt
360 Degree Automobile Video Camera System • Similarities: -- Both are 360 degree camera. -- Interface with Microcontroller • Difference: -- Interfacing with more components -- Using PWM to control -- Unable to record -- Servo with a stick
Mobile robotic vehicle • Similarities: -- Have platform to put item on it -- Able to control in dangerous environment • Difference: -- Using belt instead of wheels -- long distance control by computer -- is a final product -- Able to climb up the stairs
Is this infringement? • Yes, it is because those products are already patented and started to sell in the market, and some of functions did perform similar functions. • No, it is because the way to perform those functions is different, and also beside those functions, we add other functions on them.