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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Applicant:
Trent Steven Kucher, Peoria, IL (US);
Inventor:
Trent Steven Kucher, Peoria, IL (US);
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc, Peoria, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of monitoring a position of a movable member having a surface is provided. The method includes sensing an image of a portion of the surface of the movable member and identifying a stored image in a memory corresponding to the sensed image. The method further includes identifying a location of the movable member corresponding to the stored image. The stored image is replaced with the sensed image in the memory.