DEVICE WITH AUGMENTED REALITY

• US 20130231757A1
• Filed: 02/08/2013
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
• Original Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
• Inventors: Rother, Ingo
• Application Number:
  US13/763,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231757A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 2210/02 for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/00 Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23161 Hand held terminal PDA displays machine control program when user is near that machine
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32014 Augmented reality assists operator in maintenance, repair, programming, assembly, use of head mounted display with 2-D 3-D display and voice feedback, voice and gesture command

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for processing and/or transporting food products. The device comprises an operating element (8) controlling the device (1), the position of the operating element (8) relative to the device (1) being variable. The invention is characterized in that the current position and/or the orientation of the operating element (8) relative to the device (1) can be detected by a position detection device (15a), and that information (19) for the operation and/or diagnosis of the device (1) can be displayed to a user by the operating element (8) depending on the determined position.

Claims

1. Device (1) for processing and/or transporting food products with an operating element (8) controlling the device (1), wherein the position of the operating element (8) relative to the device (1) is variable,

characterized in that

the current position and/or the orientation of the operating element (8) relative to the device (1) can be detected by a position detection device (15a), and that information (19) for the operation and/or diagnosis of the device (1) can be displayed to a user by the operating element (8) depending on the determined position.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the information (19) can be displayed to the user by the operating element (8) visually and/or audibly and/or sensibly.

3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the operating element (8) is adapted for communication with further food-processing devices.

4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operating element (8) is stationarily mounted at the device (1), where the operating element (8) can be swiveled and/or rotated relatively to the device (1).

5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operating element (8) furthermore comprises a display panel (16) by which at least two different images (17, 18) can be simultaneously displayed.

6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the display panel (16) is a touch-sensitive monitor for simultaneous image reproduction and user input.

7. Device according to one of claim 5 or 6, characterized in that in a first image (17) of the display panel (16), an image of the device (1) or of components of the device (1) can be displayed, and the information (19) to the device (1) can be displayed in a second image (18).

8. Device according to claim 7, characterized in that the first image (17) and the second image (18) can be superposed to supplement the first image (17) with the information (19) of the second image (18).

9. Device according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the operating element (8) furthermore comprises a camera (20), and that the image of the device (1) can be displayed in real time in the first image (17) of the display panel (16) by means of the camera (20).

10. Device according to one of claims 7 to 9, characterized in that the information (19) to be displayed in the second image can be displayed depending on operating parameters and/or default settings of the device (1) and/or of the operating element (8).

11. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operating element (8) can be detached from the device (1) and is furthermore freely movable relatively to the device (1).

12. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the device (1) and/or the operating element (8) is/are adapted for wireless bidirectional communication.

13. Device according to one of claims 9 to 12, characterized in that the position detection device (15a) is formed by cooperation of the camera (20) with markers and/or reference images of the device (1) attached to the device (1).

14. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the kind of representation and/or the extent of information (19) to be represented can be adjusted by means of the operating element (8).

15. Method of operating a device (1) with an operating element (8) controlling the device (1), characterized in that the position and/or orientation of the operating element (8) relative to the device (1) are determined by means of a position detection device (15a), and that an output of information (19) for operating and/or diagnosing the device (1) is done depending on the determined position.

16. Method according to claim 15, characterized in that the device (1) or components of it are displayed in a first image (17) of a display panel (16) of the operating element (8), and that furthermore the information (19) for the operation and/or diagnosis of the device (1) are displayed in a second image (18) of the display panel (16).