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Granted Patent B2
US 11,887,250 · App. 17/911,288 · Granted Jan 30, 2024

Guide display device and crane equipped with same

Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa (Kagawa, JP); Takayuki Kosaka (Kagawa, JP); Keita Mashima (Kagawa, JP); Satoshi Kubota (Osaka, JP); Shigenori Tanaka (Osaka, JP); Masaya Nakahara (Osaka, JP); Koki Nakahata (Osaka, JP)
Assignees: TADANO LTD.; THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
G06T15/40B66C13/46
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Patent No.
US 11,887,250
App. No.
17/911,288
Granted
Jan 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a guide display device that prevents misidentification of the same feature as a plurality of different features or the ground surface even if an occlusion area occurs. A guide display device for a crane includes: a laser scanner that scans a suspended load and a ground surface from above the suspended load; and a data processing unit that calculates a representative point for each grid using the point cloud data acquired by the laser scanner, creates a three-dimensional map based on the representative points, and updates the three-dimensional map if the newly calculated representative point differs from the existing representative point. When an occlusion area, which is a shadow of the suspended load, occurs in the three-dimensional map, the occlusion area is not updated even if the newly calculated representative point and the existing representative point are different.

Claims (11)

1. A guide display device of a crane, comprising:

a data processing section configured to calculate a representative point for each grid cell by using point group data acquired with a laser scanner by scanning a lifting cargo and a ground surface from above the lifting cargo, create a three-dimensional map based on the representative point, and update the three-dimensional map when a representative point calculated anew and an existing representative point are different from each other,

wherein when an occlusion region is generated in the three-dimensional map, the data processing section does not perform update for the occlusion region even when the representative point calculated anew and the existing representative point are different from each other, the occlusion region being a shadow of the lifting cargo.

2. The guide display device according to claim 1 , wherein when the occlusion region is generated and an altitude value of the lifting cargo exceeds a threshold value that is set based on a height of the lifting cargo, the data processing section does not perform update for the occlusion region even when the representative point calculated anew and the existing representative point are different from each other.

3. The guide display device according to claim 1 , wherein the data processing section recognizes, as the occlusion region, a region set at a predetermined distance on outside from an outer edge of the lifting cargo.

4. The guide display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the data processing section creates the three-dimensional map in a unit of successive frames, and

when tracking of the lifting cargo in a current frame fails, the data processing section deletes the lifting cargo from a past frame and updates the three-dimensional map.

5. The guide display device according to claim 1 , further comprising a data display section configured to display images of the lifting cargo and the ground surface captured with a camera from above the lifting cargo,

wherein guide information generated based on the three-dimensional map is displayed on the data display section in a superimposed manner on the image captured with the camera.

6. A crane comprising the guide display device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2022
From: ISHIKAWA, IWAO; KOSAKA, TAKAYUKI; MASHIMA, KEITA; KUBOTA, SATOSHI; TANAKA, SHIGENORI; NAKAHARA, MASAYA; NAKAHATA, KOKI
To: TADANO LTD.; THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 061078/0976 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-056813 · Mar 26, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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