Patent Document ID: 8941817
Application ID: 13471584
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for pointing a plurality of predetermined locations inside an aircraft fuselage portion of a primary structure, the method comprising: retrieving a plurality of previously determined positions stored in a memory associated with a mobile assembly that includes a video camera, wherein the mobile assembly is to move to the previously determined positions to visualize predetermined locations in the aircraft fuselage portion that are associated with the previously determined positions; capturing a plurality of images of the aircraft fuselage portion by the video camera, wherein the plurality of captured images depicts each of the previously determined positions; performing a first image recognition process to identify when the mobile assembly has moved to each of the previously determined positions, and performing a second image recognition process to point to and identify the predetermined locations associated with the previously determined positions, wherein the first and second image recognition processes are performed by comparing the plurality of captured images to a plurality of reference images associated with known ones of the previously determined positions in the memory; automatically moving the mobile assembly from a first previously determined position to a second previously determined position based on the performance of the first image recognition process; and automatically pointing to each predetermined location when the mobile assembly has arrived at each corresponding previously determined position, to thereby mark each predetermined location in the aircraft fuselage portion, based on the performance of the second image recognition process.