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US 11,380,095 B2Granted
Work supporting apparatus and work supporting system
AssigneeMaxell, Ltd.
InventorsDaisuke Yoshida, Hiroaki Ito
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Abstract
A work supporting apparatus includes: a visible light camera (visible light image photographing unit) configured to photograph a visible light image; a far-infrared camera (thermal image photographing unit) configured to photograph a thermal image; a work progress status determining unit configured to determine a work progress status from the visible light image photographed by the visible light camera and the thermal image photographed by the far-infrared camera; and a display configured to display a determination result of the work progress status.
Claims9
A work supporting apparatus, comprising:
- a visible light image photographing unit configured to photograph a visible light image of work equipment;
- a thermal image photographing unit configured to photograph a thermal image of the work equipment;
- a work progress status determining unit configured to determine a work progress status based on the visible light image photographed by the visible light image photographing unit and the thermal image photographed by the thermal image photographing unit;
- and
- a display configured to display a determination result of the work progress status,
- wherein after the work progress status determining unit determines, based on the visible light image and the thermal image of the work equipment, that an ongoing work by the work equipment is shifted from a first work to a second work as the work progress status, the work progress status determining unit is configured to start to measure a work time for the second work in response to a determination that a temperature of a work target region of the work equipment for the second work reaches a predetermined work temperature for the second work based on the thermal image of the work equipment, the work target region being extracted based on the visible light image.
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A method, performed by a work supporting apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- photographing a visible light image of work equipment;
- photographing a thermal image of the work equipment;
- determining a work progress status based on the photographed visible light image and the photographed thermal image;
- and
- displaying a determination result of the work progress status,
- wherein after it is determined, based on the visible light image and the thermal image of the work equipment, that an ongoing work by the work equipment is shifted from a first work to a second work as the work progress status, starting to measure a work time for the second work in response to a determination that a temperature of a work target region of the work equipment for the second work reaches a predetermined work temperature for the second work based on the thermal image of the work equipment, the work target region being extracted based on the visible light image.
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A work supporting apparatus, comprising:
- a visible light image photographing unit configured to photograph a visible light image of work equipment;
- a thermal image photographing unit configured to photograph a thermal image of the work equipment;
- a storage to store work information, the work information comprising:
- individual work information including work target information, work temperature information, and work time information, and
- work process information in which one or more individual work information is ordered;
- a work target region extracting unit that extracts the work target region from the visible light image and the work target information;
- a work target region temperature calculator configured to determine the work target region of the thermal image corresponding to the work target region of the visible light image and to output a work target region temperature information;
- a work progress status determining unit configured to determine a work progress status based on the visible light image, the work information, a work target region temperature information and a measured time;
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- a display configured to display a determination result of the work progress status,
- wherein, the work progress status determining unit displays work instruction information on the display based on the work process information, and
- when after the work progress status determination unit determines that the work in progress is shifted from the first work to the second work from the work target region temperature information, the work progress status determining unit is configured to start to measure a work time for the second work in response to a determination that a temperature of a work target region of the work equipment for the second work reaches a predetermined work temperature for the second work based on the thermal image of the work equipment, the work target region being extracted based on the visible light image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.