US 12,117,832 B2Granted

Dynamic proximity alert systems and methods

AssigneeFLIR Belgium BVBA

InventorsMark C. Rivers, Stuart Newcombe

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Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide graphical user interfaces for assisted and/or autonomous navigation for mobile structures. A navigation assist system includes a user interface with a display for a mobile structure and a logic device configured to render a docking user interface on the display. The logic device determines a direction and magnitude of a navigational bias associated with navigation of the mobile structure and determines a spatially biased safety perimeter and hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure, based on the direction and magnitude of the navigational bias. The docking user interface includes a maneuvering guide with a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a user interface for a mobile structure comprising a display;
and
a logic device configured to communicate with the user interface and render a docking user interface on the display, wherein the logic device is configured to:
monitor perimeter sensor data provided by a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure, wherein the perimeter sensor data corresponds to at least a hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of the perimeter ranging system;
and
render the docking user interface based, at least in part, on the monitored perimeter sensor data, wherein the docking user interface comprises a maneuvering guide comprising a mobile structure perimeter indicator, a virtual bumper perimeter indicator disposed about the mobile structure perimeter indicator and corresponding to a safety perimeter for the mobile structure, and/or a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator disposed substantially within the virtual bumper perimeter indicator, wherein the virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator is configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard disposed within the monitoring perimeter of the perimeter ranging system.

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A method comprising:

monitoring perimeter sensor data provided by a perimeter ranging system mounted to a mobile structure, wherein the perimeter sensor data corresponds to at least a hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of the perimeter ranging system;
and
rendering a docking user interface based, at least in part, on the monitored perimeter sensor data, wherein the docking user interface comprises a maneuvering guide comprising a mobile structure perimeter indicator, a virtual bumper perimeter indicator disposed about the mobile structure perimeter indicator and corresponding to a safety perimeter for the mobile structure, and/or a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator disposed substantially within the virtual bumper perimeter indicator, wherein the virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator is configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard disposed within the monitoring perimeter of the perimeter ranging system.

A method comprising:

determining a direction and magnitude of a navigational bias associated with navigation of a mobile structure;
determining a spatially biased safety perimeter for the mobile structure and a spatially biased hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure based, at least in part, on the determined direction and magnitude of the navigational bias;
and
rendering a docking user interface based, at least in part, on the spatially biased safety perimeter and/or the spatially biased hazard monitoring area, wherein the docking user interface comprises a maneuvering guide comprising a mobile structure perimeter indicator and a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator disposed at least partially about and/or adjacent to the mobile structure perimeter indicator;
wherein the virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator is configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard detected at or within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area, one or more spatially biased hazard escalation zones distributed within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area, and/or the spatially biased safety perimeter for the mobile structure.

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Facts

Application: 18/077,062Filed 7 Dec 2022 · continuation
Priority: 31 Oct 2018
Published: US 2023/0103359 A16 Apr 2023
Granted: 15 Oct 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

B63B 49/00
Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids
G05D 1/0044
Associated with a remote control arrangement: by providing the operator with a computer generated representation of the environment of the…
B63B 79/10
Monitoring properties or operating parameters of vessels in operation: using sensors, e.g. pressure sensors, strain gauges or accelerometers
B63B 79/40
Monitoring properties or operating parameters of vessels in operation: for controlling the operation of vessels, e.g. monitoring their speed,…

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Application62/753,763Us provisional application · filed 31 Oct 2018
Application62/851,025Us provisional application · filed 21 May 2019
PCT/US2019/058958Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Oct 2019
Application63/038,626Us provisional application · filed 12 Jun 2020
Application17/246,489Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Apr 2021
PCT/US2021/037127Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jun 2021
US 2023/0103359 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Apr 2023
US 12,084,155 B2Related patent
US 2021/0269128 A1Published application
US 12,117,832 B2This patent

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