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Granted Patent B2
US 11,630,436 · App. 16/655,455 · Granted Apr 18, 2023

Measurement program selection assisting apparatus and measurement control apparatus

Inventors: Shinsaku Abe (Hokkaido, JP); Kuniyuki Nuka (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
G05B19/4069G06F3/04817G06F30/20G06T7/0006G06T7/579G06T7/73G06T19/006G06V10/255G06V20/20G06V20/64G05B2219/32014G06V2201/06
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Patent No.
US 11,630,436
App. No.
16/655,455
Granted
Apr 18, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a measurement program selection assisting apparatus capable of visually confirming whether a selected measurement program is suitable for an object to be measured. One aspect of the present invention is a measurement program selection assisting apparatus comprising: a measurement program database storing a measurement program related to measurement of an object and superimposed display information corresponding to a three-dimensional shape of the object in association with each other; a display unit capable of displaying information defined in a virtual space superimposed on the real space; and a display control unit for acquiring the superimposed display information corresponding to a selected measurement program from the measurement program database and displaying the acquired superimposed display information in a mixed reality on the display unit.

Claims (11)

1. A measurement control apparatus comprising:

a control unit that executes a selected measurement program to cause a measuring apparatus to perform measurement of an object by controlling movement of a probe or motion of a measurement head according to a measurement order specified in the measurement program;

a display unit capable of displaying information defined in a virtual space superimposed on the real space;

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display, as the superimposed display information, a motion prediction display indicating the motion of the measuring apparatus when the selected measuring program is executed; and

a detecting unit for acquiring a shape, a position and an orientation of the object,

wherein the control unit evaluates, based on the shape of the object acquired by the detecting unit and the selected measurement program, the possibility of interference between the object and the measuring apparatus when the measurement program is executed, and

wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display where the possibility of interference occurs is more than a predetermined value as the superimposed display information in mixed reality.

2. The measurement control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the motion prediction display includes a three-dimensional moving image.

3. The measurement control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the motion prediction display includes a graphic showing a moving path of the probe included in the measuring apparatus.

4. The measurement control apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprises a field of view specifying unit for specifying the field of view of the operator,

wherein the control unit controls the movement of the measuring apparatus based on the measurement program so as not to start unless the superimposed display information falls within the field of view of the operator specified by the field of view specifying unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2019
From: ABE, SHINSAKU; NUKA, KUNIYUKI
To: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050758/0016 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP JP2018-198296 · Oct 22, 2018 · national
JP JP2019-098436 · May 27, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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