VIRTUAL CAMERA ON THE BUCKET OF AN EXCAVATOR DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES OF BURIED PIPES

Patent №

US 6,735,888

Granted

2004-05-18

Filed 2002

Owner

WITTEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10143423

We describe a system for displaying buried utilities to the operator of an excavator. The display is based on 3D images of the subsurface obtained from advanced locating methods. As the excavator moves, the display changes so that it remains centered on the region near the bucket where the buried pipes are in danger of being broken.

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AI classification

Vision0.94
Natural language0.03
Planning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

WITTEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 130990162

UNDERGROUND IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES LLC

assignment · 276830137

Assignors

GREEN, ROBERT E., HANSEN, THORKILD, ORISTAGLIO, MICHAEL L., BIRKEN, RALF, DEMING, ROSS

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

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