Automatic location placement system
AssigneeMAID IP Holdings Pty/Ltd
InventorBradley Tyers
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Abstract
A method of automatically moving, by an automatic location placement system, a marine vessel includes receiving, by a central processing unit, from a vision ranging photography system, at least one optical feed including data providing a mapping of an environment surrounding a marine vessel. The method includes displaying, by the central processing unit, on a touch screen monitor, the mapping of the environment. The method includes receiving, by the central processing unit, from the touch screen monitor, target location data. The method includes directing, by the central processing unit, at least one element of a propulsion system of the marine vessel, to move the marine vessel to the targeted location, using the mapping.
Claims22
A method for automatically navigating a marine vessel in relation to memorized reference points on an external object, the method comprising:
- sensing, using at least one transducer, sensed reference points on the external object;
- transmitting information representing the sensed reference points on the external object to a processor control unit;
- receiving, by the processor control unit, the information representing the sensed reference points on the external object;
- at the processor control unit, memorizing the information representing the sensed reference points on the external object as memorized reference point information, whereby the memorized reference points are the same points as the sensed reference points;
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- automatically navigating the marine vessel to a position in relation to the memorized reference points on the external object.
A system for automatically navigating a marine vessel in relation to memorized reference points on an external object, the system comprising:
- a propulsion system;
- at least one transducer adapted to:
- sense sensed reference points on the external object;
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- transmit information representing the sensed reference points on the external object to a processor control unit;
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- the processor control unit, operatively connected to the propulsion system to:
- receive the information representing the sensed reference points on the external object;
- memorize the information representing the sensed reference points on the external object as memorized reference point information, whereby the memorized reference points are the same points as the sensed reference points;
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- automatically control at least one element of the propulsion system to navigate the marine vessel in relation to the memorized reference points on the external object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.