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AssigneeCertusView Technologies, LLC
InventorsSteven Nielsen, Curtis Chambers, Jeffrey Farr
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A locate device for a locate operation to detect a presence or an absence of one or more underground facilities is configured to access and display facilities map information, and/or other image information, as a visual aid to facilitate the locate operation. In various aspects, methods and apparatus relate to: selection of an appropriate “base” facilities map, or information from a database of facilities map data, relating to a given work site/dig area; selection of an appropriate pan and/or zoom (resolution) for displaying facilities map information; appropriately updating displayed facilities map information while a locate device is used during a locate operation (e.g. changing pan, zoom and/or orientation); overlaying on the displayed facilities map information locate information and/or landmark information relating to the locate operation; and storing locally on the locate device, and/or transmitting from the locate device, facilities map information and/or overlaid locate/landmark information (e.g., for further processing, analysis and/or subsequent display).
A locate receiver to detect a presence or an absence of an underground facility, the locate receiver comprising:
A method for displaying information on a locate receiver having a housing, an RF antenna for receiving a magnetic field and outputting an output signal, a processing circuit, for receiving the output signal from the RF antenna and determining a magnetic field strength of the magnetic field indicative of a presence or an absence of an underground facility, at least one sensor coupled to the housing to output first geographic information indicative of a first geographic location of the locate receiver, a display device coupled to the housing, at least one memory, and at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the processing circuit, the display device, the at least one sensor and the at least one memory, the method comprising:
At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed on at least one processor in a locate receiver having a housing, an RF antenna for receiving a magnetic field and outputting an output signal, a processing circuit, for receiving the output signal from the RF antenna and determining a magnetic field strength of the magnetic field indicative of a presence or an absence of an underground facility, at least one sensor coupled to the housing to output first geographic information indicative of a first geographic location of the locate receiver, a display device coupled to the housing, at least one memory, and at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the processing circuit, the display device, the at least one sensor and the at least one memory, causes the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:
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