1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system and the like recognizing an environment of a device.
2. Description of the Related Art
There has been disclosed an approach (for example, refer to Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 2007-322138 referred to as Patent Document 1) for estimating a position of a robot according to image data and range data acquired respectively from a camera and a laser range finder mounted in the robot.
However, when the robot performs operations on various objects present in a marginal environment thereof as a subject according to different situations, such as holding an arbitrary object with a hand thereof, it is necessary for it to recognize correctly a position, a shape, a posture and the like of the object.