Augmented reality presentation of an industrial environment

US10319128B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sharon M. Billi-Duran · Euclid, US
• Christopher W. Como · Chagrin Falls, US
• Edward A. Gray · North Olmsted, US
• Kyle K. Reissner · Hudson, US
• Jonathan D. Walter · Broadview Heights, US
• Mohit Singhai · Lyndhurst, US
• Douglas J. Reichard · Fairview Park, US
• Scott N. Sandler · Chagrin Falls, US
• Ronald E. Bliss · Twinsburg, US
• Michael John Pantaleano · Willoughby, US
• Ryan Cahalane · Chagrin Falls, US
• Jessica L. Korpela · Milwaukee, US
• Bruce T. McCleave, Jr. · Mission Viejo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/32014
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A industrial visualization system generates augmented reality presentations for rendering on a user's wearable computer as the user traverses an industrial facility. The system can leverage data indexed in a federated data model that unifies plant-wide data from multiple diverse sources under a common namespace. By leveraging the unified plant data and interacting with a wearable computer worn by a user, the augmented reality presentation system provides automation system data, notifications, and proactive guidance to a user via modification of the user's view of his or her immediate surroundings. Such modifications can include superimposing data values or indicators on the user's view of a machine or automation system through the user's wearable computer. The system can customize presentation of this information based on the user's role, location, line of sight, type of wearable device, and/or other contextual information.