Display system for construction machine

• US 10,323,388 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2016
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kanari, Yasuhiko, Edamura, Manabu, Izumi, Shiho, Kurose, Takahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Soofi, Yazan A
• Application Number:
  US15/549,300
• Publication Number:
  US 20180030694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 701 344
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/32 working downwardly and towards the machine, e.g. with backhoes
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/26 Indicating devices E02F5/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/261 Surveying the work-site to be treated
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/264 Sensors and their calibration for indicating the position of the work tool
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30241 Trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/248 involving reference images or patches

Abstract

A display system for a construction machine includes: a moving direction computing section for computing a predictive moving direction of a bucket; a work-tool display control section that, if the moving direction computing section predicts a movement of the bucket, changes the display position of a bucket image based on the predictive moving direction such that the area of a region located on the predictive moving direction side from the bucket image on the display screen of a monitor is displayed wider than when the bucket image is displayed at a reference position and that displays the bucket image at the reference position if a movement of the bucket cannot be predicted. A target-surface display control section displays on the display screen an image of a target surface when the bucket image is displayed at the display position determined by the work-tool display control section.

Claims

1. A construction machine comprising:

a work device for excavating a predetermined target surface with a work tool;

an operation lever for operating the work device;

a display monitor; and

a control unit configured to control the display monitor to display a display screen including an image of the work tool and an image of the target surface which indicate a positional relationship between the work tool and the target surface,

wherein the control unit includes a storage device which stores data including a position of the target surface in a first coordinate system,

wherein the control unit is further configured to;

compute a position and a posture of the work tool in the first coordinate based on status parameters related to a position and a posture of the work device;

display, on the display screen, the image of the work tool at a reference position set in a second coordinate system set on the display screen based on the position and the posture of the work device in the first coordinate system,

display, on the display screen, the image of the target surface included in the display screen upon displaying the image of the work tool at the reference position in accordance with the position and the posture of the work device in the first coordinate system and the position of the target surface in the first coordinate system,

compute a predictive moving direction of the work tool based at least on the position and the posture of the work device in the first coordinate system or on an operation amount of the operation lever;

when a movement of the work implement is predicted based at least on the position and the posture of the work device in the first coordinate system or on the operation amount of the operation lever, change a display position of the image of the work tool from the reference position to another position, and display, on the display screen, the image of the target surface included in the display screen upon displaying the image of the work tool at the other position in accordance with the position and the posture of the work device in the first coordinate system and the position of the target surface in the first coordinate system, and

wherein the other position is set in the second coordinate system, and an area of a region located on a predictive moving direction side from the image of the work tool when displaying the image of the work tool on the display screen at the other position is wider than when displaying the image of the work tool on the display screen at the reference position.

2. The construction machine of claim 1,

wherein the control unit is further configured to display the image of the work tool such that a machine body of the construction machine is positioned in one of left and right directions of the display screen, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to:

when the predictive moving direction is away from the machine body of the construction machine, display the image of the work tool at the other position which is located closer to the machine body of the construction machine than the reference position,

when the predictive moving direction is closer toward the machine body, display the image of the work tool at the other position which is located farther away from the machine body than the reference position, and

when a movement of the work tool is unpredictable, display the image of the work tool at the reference position on the display screen.

3. The construction machine of claim 1,

wherein the other position is separated by a predetermined distance from the reference position in a direction opposite the predictive moving direction.

4. The construction machine of claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to display, on the display screen, a direction in which the target surface exists when the image of the target surface is not displayed on the display screen.

5. The construction machine of claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to:

extract, from the data of the target surface stored on the storage device, data included in a predetermined range around the position of the work tool as a reference, and

display the image of the target surface on the display screen based on the extracted data.