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Tablet-based welding simulator

  • US 9,330,575 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 05/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • generating a dynamic virtual welding environment within a computer-based platform which includes 3D glasses and a mock welding tool;

    displaying stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) images of at least a portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment on a display screen of the computer-based platform;

    viewing the stereoscopic three-dimensional images using 3D glasses, resulting in at least a portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment appearing to project out of the display screen into a 3D space;

    calibrating the mock welding tool to a projected position of the projected portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment in 3D space, wherein the calibrating includes correlating a detected position of at least one point on the mock welding tool in 3D space to a known position of at least one point on a projected virtual weldment in the projected portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment in 3D space; and

    virtually welding the virtual weldment of the projected portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment projected in 3D space using the mock welding tool while viewing the stereoscopic three-dimensional images using 3D glasses, wherein virtually welding comprises tracking the mock welding tool is in 3D space and correlating a position of the mock welding tool in 3D space to a corresponding position within the projected portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment in 3D space based at least in part on a position of the projected portion of the dynamic virtual welding environment projected into the in 3D space as viewed via the 3D glasses.

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