Patent ID: 8044991

Claim:
A local positioning system, comprising: a support; a pan-tilt mechanism carried by said support; a video camera carried by said pan-tilt mechanism; said pan-tilt mechanism is adapted to pan and tilt said video camera; a computer communicating with said video camera and said pan-tilt mechanism; a target object sighted by said video camera and having a point of interest to be measured and a target object coordinate system; said computer is adapted to define a relative position and orientation of said video camera with respect to said target object, determine a position and orientation of said video camera in said target object coordinate system, and determine a position of said point of interest in said target object coordinate system; said computer is adapted to retrieve a three-dimensional model of said target object and display said target object coordinate system and said point of interest on said three-dimensional model of said target object; and said computer is adapted to indicate locations of previously recorded points of interest comprising previous repair locations of said target object on said three-dimensional model of said target object.