Integrating position information into a handheld tool

US9510150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Trimble Navigation Limited · US

Inventors

• Kent Kahle · Tipp City, US
• Pat Bohle · Boulder, US
• Reinhard Waibel · Berneck, CH
• Markus Messmer · Günzburg, DE
• Oliver Glockner · Feldkirch, AT
• Angela Beckenbauer · Sankt Gallen, CH
• Till Cramer · Feldkirch, AT
• Andreas Winter · Feldkirch, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 14, 2015
• Grant date: Nov 29, 2016
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/029
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.