Patent ID: 11897734
Assignee: STRUCTURAL SERVICES, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A guidance system for guiding a crane operator to a location of a first building material object having a first identifying indicium and located within a shakeout field, the guidance system comprising:
an imager mounted on a hook-block of a crane, the imager providing a sequence of overlapping images of the shakeout field;
a GPS receiver coupled to the imager and the hook-block, wherein the GPS receiver is capable of providing a GPS location of the hook-block and a GPS location of the first building material object;
a computer coupled to the imager and the GPS receiver, wherein the computer is configured to:
generate an image of the shakeout field including the first building material object based on the sequence of overlapping images;
recognize the first building material object within the image; recognize the first identifying indicium of the first building material object within the image; and
provide a visual recognition to the crane operator for guiding the operation of the hook-block to the location of the first building material object based on of the GPS location of the first building material object.