WELD TRAINING SYSTEMS WITH RESETTABLE TARGET TOOL IMAGES

Patent №

US 11,699,359

Granted

2023-07-11

Filed 2021

Owner

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17460862

Described herein are examples of weld training systems that show (e.g., transparent and/or translucent) “ghost” images of a welding tool on a display screen of a welding headgear to indicate target positions and/or target orientations of an actual welding tool. In some examples, the weld training systems may additionally “reset” the target tool image to a position closer to the actual welding tool if the target tool image gets too far away. The ability to “reset” the target tool image to a position closer to the actual welding tool may help in minimizing a risk that an operator 106 will overcompensate to try to catch up with the target tool image, which can be detrimental to the weld. Additionally, resetting the target tool image to a position closer the welding tool may allow an operator to better perceive and/or understand differences in orientation and/or other technique parameters.

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AI classification

Vision0.81
Machine learning0.32
Planning0.24
Evolutionary computation0.10
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

assignment · 604350977

Assignors

MUSKE, MITCHELL JAMES, SCHNEIDER, JOSEPH C.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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