Method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs and determining the position of an environmental condition at situs

• US 20130113782A1
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amadeus Burger
• Original Assignee: Amadeus Burger
• Inventors: Burger, Amadeus
• Application Number:
  US13/199,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113782A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/00 Maps; Plans; Charts; Diagrams, e.g. route diagram star maps G09B27/04; devices for holding or supporting maps A47B97/02; for computing purposes G06G1/14, G09B1/16; display boards G09F
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

The present invention includes methods for generating a 3-dimensional rendering of a subject space, and for determining the location of a desired situs therein and preferably further including dimensional positioning of an environmental condition therein, and which data may be particularly useful for use in a complex work structure, such as a nuclear power plant, an industrial plant, a mine or other complex structure.

Claims

1. A method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a space, said method comprising:

recording first indicia to define at least a portion of the space;

transmitting the recorded first indicia to a database;

storing the recorded first indicia within said database;

mapping the first indicia defining said space;

creating within said database a 3-dimensional rendering of the space;

subsequently, at the selected situs recording second indicia defining a subset of said space;

transmitting the second indicia to the database;

comparing said first and second indicia; and

finding matching first and second indicia, and thus to identify the location of the situs within said 3-dimensional rendering of the space.

2. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein said first indicia comprises visual indicia.

3. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein said second indicia comprises visual indicia.

4. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situ within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein said recording first indicia to define at least a portion of the space is accomplished by means selected from the group consisting of laser scanning, digital imaging, photographing, and CAD modeling.

5. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein said mapping of the first indicia defining said space to create within said database a 3-dimensional rendering of the space is selected from the group consisting of visual representations and dimensional representations of the space and combinations thereof.

6. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein the space is a complex structure.

7. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein the complex structure selected from the group consisting of a nuclear plant, an industrial plant, a mine, and a building.

8. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein the situs is occupied by an object.

9. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 8, wherein the object is selected from the group consisting of a person, equipment and a device.

10. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 8, wherein the object is selected from the group consisting of a stationary object and a moving object.

11. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein the matching of the first and second indicia for identifying the location of the selected situs within said 3-dimensional rendering of the space is determined from analysis of the optical geometry at the selected situs.

12. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 11, wherein the recording of second indicia defining a subset of said space is made photographically, and the matching of the first and second indicia for identifying the location of the selected situs within said 3-dimensional rendering of the space determined from analysis of the optical geometry at the selected situs is calculated through utilization of viewing angle and lens parameters.

13. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, further comprising the step of pre-marking detectable indicia upon an object at the selected situs.

14. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, further comprising the step of determining and transferring thereto a dimensional scale for the visual indicia data recorded within the database, thereby to accord specific measurements to the visual indicia stored within said database.

15. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 14, wherein the dimensional scale is integrated upon the 3-dimensional rendering of the data.

16. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 1, wherein said recording of first indicia comprises recording substantially the entirety of the indicia defining said space.

17. A method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a space, said method comprising:

recording first indicia to define at least a portion of the space;

transmitting the first indicia to a database;

storing the recorded first indicia within said database;

mapping the recorded first indicia defining said space;

creating within said database a 3-dimensional rendering of the space;

detecting an environmental condition;

subsequently, at the selected situs recording second indicia defining a subset of said space where detection of the environmental condition occurred;

transmitting the portion of the subsequently recorded second indicia to the database with a parameter identifying the situs of the environmental condition;

storing the recorded second indicia and the parameter identifying the environmental condition within the database;

comparing the first indicia and the second indicia;

matching first indicia and the second indicia, and thus to identify the location of the situs within said 3-dimensional rendering of the space; and

associating the position of the situs within the 3-dimensional rendering of the space with the parameter identifying the environmental condition, thereby to define the location of the environmental condition prevailing at the situs.

18. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 17, further comprising the step of storing within the computer the parameter identifying the environmental condition.

19. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 17 wherein the environmental condition comprises radiation.

20. The method for determining characteristics of a unique location of a selected situs within a 3-dimensional space of claim 17, further comprising the step of measuring the amount of the environmental condition.