MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514097355 A) filed by Bauer Maschinen Gmbh, Schrobenhausen, Germany, on Oct. 9, 2025, for 'method and system for determining the position and/or the orientation of tools of construction machines in a construction area.'
Inventor(s) include Peter Bruderle; and Matthias Semel.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for determining the position and/or orientation of tools of construction machines in a construction area, comprising the steps of: attaching at least one stereo camera to at least one construction machine or to a movable carrier, such that the stereo camera can detect at least one detection region within the construction area, preferably a working region of the construction machine, providing at least one reference point, the position of which is known relative to a predefined 3D world coordinate system and which can be recognised in the images of the stereo camera, in the detection region of the at least one stereo camera, calibrating the at least one stereo camera on the basis of the detection of the at least one reference point and triangulation in order to ascertain a transformation between the 3D world coordinate system and a 2D image coordinate system of the at least one stereo camera, preparing a virtual digital 3D terrain model of the construction area by means of digital image processing, in particular stereoscopy, and image recognition on the basis of the detection of the construction area by means of the at least one stereo camera, and representing predetermined working positions and detected actual tool positions and/or actual tool inclinations of the tool of the at least one construction machine in the virtual digital 3D terrain model."
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