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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kent Kahle, Hayward, CA (US);
Pat Bohle, Boulder, CO (US);
Reinhard Waibel, Berneck, CH;
Markus Messmer, Wasserburg, DE;
Oliver Glockner, Feldkirch, AT;
Angela Beckenbauer, St. Gallen, CH;
Till Cramer, Jenins, CH;
Andreas Winter, Feldkirch, AT;
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.