Display system of excavation machine, excavation machine, and image display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10161111-B2
Application number	US-201414433170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2014
Priority date	Sep 9, 2014
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket and a body portion on which the work machine is mounted. The display system includes a bucket position information generator which generates position information of the bucket; a storage which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object; a display which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and a processor which displays a straight line image that is generated by extracting a part corresponding to a bottom surface of the bucket, viewed from a side surface, along with the image of the target construction surface on the display.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket, the display system of the excavation machine comprising:
a storage unit which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object;
a display unit which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and
a processing unit which displays, on the display unit, a part corresponding to a contour of a bottom surface of the bucket of a contour of the bucket viewed from a side surface, in a different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the contour of a part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket and the image of the target construction surface.

2. The display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image, and the processing unit generates an image of the contour of the bucket separately from the straight line image, and displays the image of the contour of the bucket in a different display form from the straight line image on the display unit along with the straight line image.

3. The display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image, and the processing unit changes a display form of the straight line image before and after the bottom surface of the bucket and the target construction surface are parallel to each other.

4. The display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image, and the processing unit changes a display form of the straight line image according to an angle between the bottom surface of the bucket and the target construction surface.

5. The display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 ,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image, and the processing unit changes a display form of the straight line image according to a distance between the bottom surface of the bucket and the target construction surface.

6. An excavation machine comprising:
the display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 .

7. An image display method comprising:
when an image is displayed on a display unit of an excavation machine which includes a work machine having a bucket and the display unit which displays at least an image of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object on a screen,
displaying the image of the target construction surface on the display unit; and
displaying, on the display unit, a part corresponding to a contour of a bottom surface of the bucket of a contour of the bucket viewed from a side surface, in a different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the contour of a part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket and the image of the target construction surface.

8. The display system of an excavation machine according to claim 1 , further comprising
a plurality of sensors which detects postures of the work machine; and
a bucket position information generation unit which further generates position information of the bucket by using detection results of the sensors,
wherein the processing unit displays, on the display unit, the part corresponding to the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket of the contour of the bucket viewed from the side surface, by using the generated position information of the bucket, in the different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the contour of the part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket and the image of the target construction surface.

9. A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket, the display system of the excavation machine comprising:
a bucket position information generation unit which generates position information of a cutting edge of the bucket;
a storage unit which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object;
a display unit which displays an image of the bucket and an image of the target construction surface on a screen;
a processing unit which, on the display unit, by using the position information of the bucket and the information of the dimension of the bucket, displays a part corresponding to a contour of a bottom surface of the bucket of a contour of the bucket viewed from a side surface, in a different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the contour of a part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket and the image of the target construction surface; and
a display switch device which switches between display and non-display of the straight line image,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image.

10. A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket, the display system of the excavation machine comprising:
a bucket position information generation unit which generates position information of the bucket;
a storage unit which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object;
a display unit which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and
a processing unit which, on the display unit, displays a part corresponding to a contour of a bottom surface of the bucket of a contour of the bucket viewed from a side surface, in a different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the image of the target construction surface and the contour of a part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket which excludes the part corresponding to the bottom surface of the bucket,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image.

11. A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket, the display system of the excavation machine comprising:
a bucket position information generation unit which generates position information of the bucket;
a storage unit which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object;
a display unit which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and
a processing unit which, on the display unit, displays a part corresponding to a contour of a bottom surface of the bucket of a contour of the bucket viewed from a side surface, in a different display form from the contour other than the contour of the bottom surface of the bucket, along with the contour of a part of other than the bottom surface of the bucket and the image of the target construction surface,
wherein an image indicating a part corresponding to a contour of the bottom surface of the bucket is a straight line image which is generated by extracting the part corresponding to the bottom surface of the bucket, and the processing unit changes a display form of the straight

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Iwanaga Daishi
• Takaura Takeshi
• Arimatsu Daiki

Classifications

• G01S19/54

  using carrier phase measurements; using long or short baseline interferometry · CPC title

• G01S19/43

  using carrier phase measurements, e.g. kinematic positioning; using long or short baseline interferometry · CPC title

• G01S19/14

  specially adapted for specific applications · CPC title

• E02F9/264

  Sensors and their calibration for indicating the position of the work tool · CPC title

• E02F9/261

  Surveying the work-site to be treated · CPC title