Aligning and augmenting a partial subspace of a physical infrastructure with at least one information element

US12147590B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Asa MacWilliams · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE
• Daniel LABISCH · Karlsruhe, DE
• Joseph Newman · San Diego, US
• Andreas Hutter · Munich, DE
• Andoni Gonzalo · Berango, ES
• Gert De Nul · Aalst, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2021
• Grant date: Nov 19, 2024
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06V2201/06
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments include a computer-implemented method for augmenting a physical infrastructure with an information element. The method may include: acquiring data of a spatial environment infrastructure, dimensioned by a coordinate system; defining a second spatial environment as a subspace of the first and dimensioned by its own coordinate system with a first marker item and a second marker item; creating a SLAM map of the second environment with two SLAM marker items; recognizing the SLAM identifiers; aligning the coordinate system of the SLAM map to the coordinate system of the second environment; recognizing a first and a second marker identifier; determining an absolute position and orientation of the second spatial environment relative to the first environment; defining the information element in relation to a component of the infrastructure; determining coordinates of the element in the second environment; and augmenting the physical infrastructure with the information element at the spatial coordinates.