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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Inventors:
Joe E. Forcash, Zelienople, PA (US);
Michael Hoffelder, Norwich, NY (US);
Robert C. McCall, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Lawrence A. Mianzo, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02F 9/26 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E02F 9/264 (2013.01); E02F 9/261 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); B60R 2300/602 (2013.01); B60W 2300/17 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for monitoring the movement of a work tool of a machine using a work tool vision a comprises sensing data related to the image of a work tool, selecting a template of an image of a work tool, and displaying the sensed image of the work tool after modifying the sensed image of the work tool by at least zooming on a portion of the sensed data of the image if the sensed data of the image of a work tool matches the template of an image of a work tool.