US 11,810,257 B2
Method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment
Frank Maggiore, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US); Angelo Stracquatanio, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US); Milan Bradonjic, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US); and Nabil Chehade, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US)
Assigned to Apprentice FS, Inc., Jersey City, NJ (US)
Filed by Apprentice FS, Inc., Port Jefferson Station, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,817.
Application 17/478,817 is a continuation of application No. 16/700,851, filed on Dec. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,145,130.
Application 16/700,851 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/678,992, filed on Nov. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,301,793.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/773,763, filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/757,593, filed on Nov. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0005284 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/33 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment includes:
defining a first spatial trigger for capturing data from displays on machines of an equipment type during a first step, in a set of steps of a procedure, based on a position of a first device interfacing with a first operator during performance of the first step of the procedure by the first operator at a first machine of the equipment type;
generating an augmented digital procedure:
defining the set of steps; and
comprising the first spatial trigger for capturing data from displays on machines of the equipment type during the first step;
serving the augmented digital procedure to a second device interfacing with a second operator;
accessing a first image captured by the second device at a first time in response to the second device falling within a threshold offset of the first spatial trigger during performance of the first step, in the set of steps defined in the augmented digital procedure, by the second operator at a second machine of the equipment type;
extracting a first value, presented on a display of the second machine at the first time, from the first image; and
storing the first value in a procedure file for the augmented digital procedure performed at the second machine.