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. 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: degree automobile video camera system - United States Patent No: Mobile robotic vehicle - United States Patent No:

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.

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