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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Trimble Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Downing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John William Peake, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Trimble Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 22/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0219 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0221 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0201 (2013.01);
Abstract
A path of travel used by an autopilot operation system for auto-guidance of a mobile machine is defined, transparently to a human operator, in response to the human operator engaging and disengaging operation of an implement coupled with the mobile machine. The auto-guidance of the mobile machine is activated, transparently to the human operator, in response to the human operator engaging the implement a second time.